You can get to wales in a mini. (Better joke if spoken)

Euphrates Kemah or Alp to Ilic and get the train back stunning trip. Fly to Erzican

I have never put a probe next to a glass Topo - I only had a glass double Topo Sorry only had a plastic single topo I've lost my glass double topo in rasta colours lent it to my brother who lent it on and he's lost touch with them so if anyone sees a red green and yellow double topolino let me know!

I'll be up that way in June and can get it down to Llangollen - I think depends if I go in the van or Fiesta!

I have never put a probe next to a glass Topo - I only had a glass double Topo

Pioneered by lakes paddling legend Richard Evans. Certainly ran everything he published. Mostly in prijon probe or latterly an RPM. Anyone ticked all his becks? The probe was from eurokayak. The Probe was a prototype for the plastic version of the Topolino - they basically got the shrinkcage wrong ...

Just done some scanning and found these pictures that John Liddell took
http://www.davemanby.co.uk/overlander-falls/

That is un-surprising but . . . £29.75 on Amazon for the hardback edition!

So far as I know there's been a charge for launching/landing at Mile end for 20 years, but they don't charge people who paddle through the site without using any of the facilities they have created. Did the person asking for the charge specifically say it was for parking, or might it have been for ...

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Legality is questionable obviously but do you want the Mill developed into "luxury flats" instead?

BTW the planning application was turned down.

Call it what you want but it is basically a way of raising funds to pay for the facility: car park, changing facilities etc. You can park in town and pay at the pay and display machines or park at the Llantisillio car park at Chain Bridge and pay at the machine there too. If you don't like it go els...

1st trip down the Coruh 82 glass boats. Dixon and I drove the shuttle on the 1st day class 2 if you were pushing definitions 2 BCU SI one BCU coach and a Div one paddler on the river, We drove down the river flat but for some small irrigation dams. We got to a ford across a side creek, too deep for ...

Their tour has started catch it if you can! Dates and venues here

http://www.davemanby.co.uk/into-twin-galaxies/

Erik N Boomer and Sarah Mcnair-Landry are coming over to the UK to do a series of lectures. I suspect the main feature will be their kite skiing into a river in Greenland and then kayaking out again. The film of the trip was the winner of Banff Mountain Film Festival People's vote but knowing the pa...

I wondered if it might be the Wellerbrücke section on the Ötz IN 1978 in glass boats - I very much doubt it. Mind you in about 1973 Mike Jones and the British Universities Tour that he was leading nearly ran the Wellebrucke section by mistake. Back in those days the old road went over a bridge very...

Many years ago c.1971 I just taken up C1 slalom, C1s had an almost perfectly circular cockpit and I had a tight nylon spraydeck. I capsised at Marsh Lock slalom, tried and failed to roll and went to pull the becket (that is what the tab is called!), it came of in my hand leaving the deck in place. I...

My mate has just found these slides and has no recollection of taking them or where they are of or who is in the pictures. Stamped on the slide is Aug 1978 so has to be before that. We went to Austria and the Braldu that year so might be Austria. http://www.davemanby.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08...

I have just landed a job to build a passivhaus in Oswestry. The job start September just when summer instructor jobs finish so do you want to learn abot low energy house building, have practical skills, fit and strong (stupid question for instructors) and want time off if it rains! Then get in touch.

Sunlight is the biggest killer of pfds. Leave that aside. Years ago the Rangers at Lees Ferry the rangers would not let us use our CE approved pfds but accepted Whit's 20+ year old Xtrasport pfd which was as faded as my jeans to quote Kris Kristoffeson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahpIirW0svY). ...

I went last year - showed the Everest film - as Toon is a friend but it is a great festival. The Rabouix campsite is now a great campsite after a period of bad management. now the trees have grown there is shade the management is kayak friendly. The festival offers films guiding event and a social c...

Given the saturated second hand market I would look at buying there you can get a variety at better prices than bulk buying a single model.

I was there last summer - didn't paddle as I had broken my wrist - but the campsite is now run by a paddler (or paddler friendly) owner Kayak Session was running a festival there the weekend I was there. The wave seemed fine - not the vicious thing that was created several years ago which might have...

https://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/books/ant ... _101243758 I have this book unfortunately many are now under water.

https://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/books/tra ... _101157982
There you go mark - bit late for you research!

https://www.wcmt.org.uk/apply

There you go if money was the problem - get yourself organised find a few mates and apply by Sept 2018 and half your costs are sorted!

Not really a new topic just an annual reminder! The Winston Churchill travel fellowship is open for applications. If you have a travel plan and have a British passport and think you can justify you trip you may be in line for a travel grant. I got this for my trip down the Coruh with a group of padd...

I was interested to listen to a BBC radio 4 program about a clean up of a London River flowing into the Thames that was cleaned up. They did a wildlife survey before cleared the river of the years of rubbish including several dozen shopping trolleys. The after clear-up wildlife survey revealed a 50%...

Well I have had two expressions of interest!