My friend Adam and I are going paddling in North Wales tomorrow, not sure what river yet, but looking for shuttle or paddling buddies. Anyone happy for us to join? We're competent grade 4 paddlers.

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I'm staying with my parents on Dartmoor at the moment and it looks like there might be water tomorrow, is anyone keen to do the Upper Dart or similar?
I'm a competent grade 4+ paddler and have paddled on Dartmoor quite a lot.
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Richard

Everything is very low. Only ubaye and guil really paddlable, with gyr going in the late afternoon. Guisane is just about ok but very low. Durance gorge seems to work on some days if the dam releasesbur not for last few days. Probably worth looking at Austria instead if you want to do lots of boating.

Any more up to date info on levels?

Gabriel Kempski and I are going to the French alps for 2 weeks kayaking from 20 June. We have a space in the car if anyone wants to join us. Looking at paddling the grade 4 classics and maybe some sections not in the guidebook. We've been a few times before and are both quite competent grade 4 paddl...

Thanks. I've emailed Southend canoe club but no reply yet. Think We'll be going to France unless levels really are so low that only guil and ubaye are runnable.

Is anyone going to the briancon or Inn/oetz areas these two weeks. Myself and some friends were going to be in briancon but given the low levels are now thinking of going to Austria, but as we have only one car and a bike we'd be influenced by whether there were other people to paddle with.

Thanks guys, this is really helpful. Is the get on for upper gyronde section just below the dam on the gyr?
The guidebook section is fast class 4 can be quite pushy in higher water, the last rapid is probably 4+

Thanks.
We've done the veneon,it is very good.
Guess we'll just make it up as we go along then.

Hi I'm going to the French alps this year and have paddled all of the classics in the regular guidebook and was wondering if anyone has any other suggestions? I've heard of an upper section Of the gyronde not long after the gyr get off. Any others? I do have the crazy French guidebook but struggling...

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Does anyone know where I could get a copy of this, it doesn't seem to be available on amazon at the moment

I'm going to be going to Montreal from May to mid July and am hoping to combine the trip with quite a bit of boating.I've read the articles on the website about it, particularly the two by Mark Rainsley and was wondering if anyone has any notes on the rivers out there or advice on where to go, when ...

Thanks everyone for your input.

I've done a few flat water paddles, but not done any competitive polo or whitewater yet, hopefully I'll be back up to that soon.

Hi I've recently had surgery to remove my large bowel and leave me with an ileostomy, I do a lot of whitewater kayaking and polo and was wondering if there is anyone around who paddles and has a stoma? I realise that this is a long shot but I was hoping to find out how it affected your paddling. I k...

We may have 2 people who want to do a course some time between 16 and 21st April if you can move the date.

Colwyn seemed like a fairly long section of consistently challenging whitewater but might have been because I hadn't done it before and it was at quite a chunky level.

We'd be open to courses anywhere South of Scotland, not just Dartmoor.

Hi I was looking for someone to run a 5* training for myself and 3 others on the weekend of 5,6 April. If possible we'd like it to be on Dartmoor, but would consider other options if needed. We all have a reasonable history of paddling class 4 and 5 water, I'd be willing to send across my logbook to...

I'm looking to have roofbars of about 150cm, but the new design of thule feet means that you can only use the length of bar which thule chooses but no longer. I was wondering if anyone has the old feet which allowed you to put the bar in a bracket on the feet, allowing the bar to be any length. Than...

I'm coming out to l'argentiere tomorrow, how are the levels looking on the classics, are people running the guil at the mo?

That was really interesting and I'm surprised and glad the success rate was found to be high in those papers. To my understanding the difference between drowning and the majority of cases of CPR is that the victim is more likely to have initially had a respiratory arrest followed by a cardiac arrest...

Not meaning to offend anyone and knowing relatively little of the situation I would say it is really important to be careful if messaging or emailing any other people in this thread, especially if they have only recently joined the forum.

We flew with them in August 2011, had no issues back then, but we did have to pay a bit extra. The bus between the terminals was not free and you can only get into the intenal departures lounge 2 hours before your flight, so if you have a long wait between planes it can be very annoying trying to lo...

We paddled the Meavey on New Years Eve, 2 tree portages and 2 other trees which were easy to avoid. Lots of flat at the start, followed by a good section of bouncey 3+ with a few small holes, I think Nigel Markey made a vid if that's of any help. Some others from our group paddled the North Teign wh...

We used one in Nepal in March and April and didnt have any problems with it.

sounds like a good thing to do if you find yourself caught in a summer downpour whilst on the beach at newgale.

Thanks very much for the advice, does anyone know how well they fit someone with a normal sized head, I currently have a rocker m/l?

Has ayone used one of these for skiing or kayaking, how do they compare to a rocker in terms of fit and comfort? Sounds like they're better in terms of strength and shock absorbance, can anyone back this up?

We ran it last year a couple of days after Deb's group and it was ok at a medium level, pretty chunky wave though, there's some good shots of it on the video Nigel Markey made of the trip.

My girlfriend lost her orange IR cag when getting off the Durance at the kayak shop in St Clement, I know Bangor saw it there and left it, but was wondering if anyone else picked it up at all?