No, that's cool, I understood that you were talking about camping not stopping for lunch. I'm glad to hear they don't object to people using their benches, they'd be a tad out of order otherwise imo. Once you get outside the curtilage of a dwelling, I think it's only right and proper that landowners...

fair enough, it's their land and their business. Well, yes, to a point. But plonking a couple of picnic benches down right next to a public right of way, a national trail no less, several hundred meters away and well outside the curtilage of the house and then leading renters of the house to believ...

1) There might be, but I don't think you'll find one available online. 2) Yes, it probably is. Quite aside from the legal situation in England and Wales, in practice if you pitch late, strike early and leave no trace (and avoid taking the piss by trying to camp in someone's front garden) it's very r...

Your first post didn't exactly give people a lot to respond to.

I know nothing about it, but you're making it sound like something is being filmed there. Some god-awful reality tv programme would be my guess.

I think Roger Chandler has an ex-fleet Romany Surf up for sale (in N Wales) at the mo:
https://www.coastalspirit.com/second-hand-sea-kayaks

Lucky bugger. :-)

Well bugger, I feel pretty silly now. But thanks! :-)

I’ve got so many favourites, but this one brings back fond memories from Arisaig, the week before going to the Scottish Sea Kayak Symposium. This year? I guess so from the sunshine and the beautiful blue skies. I was there too. Had a lovely trip out from Arisaig after the symposium, perhaps the sam...

Erm.. Ok, there's a 'cave' theme developing, I'll go with that. Love a good cave. :-)
Bit more headroom in this one...

cathalferris wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 01, 2018 2:19 pm

.. hypothetical situation.

Hmm, yes, completely. <strokes chin>

tone1147 wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 08, 2018 11:53 am

PLEASE HELP
I NEED AN ADMIN TO CONTACT ME URGENTLY

Have you tried this already? Clicky

The upper Don, from Deepcar to Oughtibridge North of Sheffield deserves a mention at Grade 2/3 ish too. It's probably easier to catch than any of the true spate streams, but even so you only really get a few hours after the rain stops. Also rumoured that Burbage Brook has been done a couple of times...

And as an approximate guide, times of low and high tides have a close relationship to the phase of the moon With this in mind - if we're opening this up to Android apps now, here's a plug for 'Daff Moon' to tell you the phase of the moon on any given date. It's a pretty thin excuse to recommend tha...

Cool, done. :-)

I found that reference in House of Commons Written Evidence . Wow. What a dismal collection of examples of the law being an ass! (And an arse.) :-( In the Hedly v Cuthbertson case, I intially assumed that was a typo in the link above. (Where it says the guide overestimated the risk of rockfall - I ...

But in that case it was clearly shown that the professional instructor had not done all that he should have done. This said, even then, he wasn't found to be 100% at fault. Or, to look at it another way.. It was shown that the injured mountain biker was a novice. But not so much of a novice that he...

But, why should you be sued by his destitute family just because you were there when he/she died? A good question. A glib answer might be that there doesn't have to be a reason, but it happens. It doesn't happen though, does it? That's my point, by having this formal structure with a "Leader" you a...

If sea kayaking was always absolutely completely safe, would we do it? I'm not sure I would - or at least not for long as anything which is completely safe doesn't really stretch us or challenge us enough to keep us interested over the long term. I think I would, if the challenge and experience rem...

I've only been kayaking a few years and mostly on the sea, but I've seen one so it seems like rather less than a million to one from here. The one I saw was relatively mild - the person pinned was taking part in a raft-race type event on a very innocuous looking grade 2 (just about) river. He came a...

No river is consistently deep, it's sort of in their nature that there will be a deep bit, then a shallow bit, then a deep bit and so on. The shallow bits are where the rapids form and the river gets a bit more interesting so they're also the bits where you're more likely to get caught out and capsi...

I'm not saying don't buy dry trousers, it may be just me that doesn't see the point! Not just you - at the very least it's me too. When it's too warm for the drysuit but too cool for just a rashy, the cag can be worn with a longjohn wetsuit, shorts or Ron Hill tracky bottoms. I suppose the dry trou...

My experience differs from some of the above - I don't think separates are any good if you're likely to be swimming. (So no good for me, as I'm *always* likely to swim at some point.) ;-) For me it's drysuit when it's cold (or when just the water is cold, and there's any chance I might be in it long...

Arrived this morning, thanks. :-)

Go on then, I'll take one of those off your hands.
Have PM'd you..

Thanks. Yes, I have tried RainX. Doesn't seem to be a *complete* waste of time, but it's not the answer. (At least not on its own.)

I have a Fujifilm XP80. On the up side it was relatively cheap, charges via USB (using the same charger/connector as my phone, so that's handy). It switches on extremely quickly, so you can turn it on, grab a quick photo and turn it off again in only a few seconds. The door over the battery/memoryca...

"On occasions we have had paddlers leaving their vehicles for days while they camp on the Islands. This is inconsiderate and in future will precipitate some action which will not be good PR for anyone." Probably meant perfectly innocently, but doesn't necessarily read that way. It could be interpret...

I've only had a seal replaced the once. (Quite new to all this.) As luck would have it I was in N Wales when my neck seal split so I was able to call in to visit the Rubberman at his workshop and get it replaced the same day. Can't fault the servivce and he did an excellent job of the repair. :-) ht...

Now sold.

Photos. If I've got this right, you should be able to click on any of the pics to see a bigger version. https://media.ukriversguidebook.co.uk/uploads/77878/1524920089960-0073.png https://media.ukriversguidebook.co.uk/uploads/77878/1524920089982-6293.png https://media.ukriversguidebook.co.uk/uploads/...