The first shipment of production Green Machines arrive this week! We’ll have a fleet of them at the Performance Kayaks Demo day this Saturday, so get down there if you’d like to be the first to have a go.
Here’s a couple of shots from my recent Norway trip. Is this the longest boat to have [...]

Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Palm HQ
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Thursday night I got a text from Simon Tapley fresh from his Greenland Expedition wanting to go paddling so early Friday morning we headed to our ‘Secret’ local playspot. When we got there it was higher than we wanted and as the playhole has a big sticky hole below it, it was a sketchy decision [...]

Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Palm HQ
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Photo guide to the Lower Karnali, Western Nepal.           
 Light streamed through the curtains of Hotel Snowland, possibly the poshest hotel in Pokhara. After the Marsyandi, Bhote Kosi, Upper Modi Khola, Upper Seti and only 9 days since landing in Kathmandu I was feeling rather tired.
“Rosie!”
“Whhhhaaaat…I’m tired, I just want to sleep and [...]

Posted on July 13th, 2008 by Gear 4 Women
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Palm and Dagger Europe are a main sponsor of the Youth Freestyle Series, which sees huge numbers of 18&under paddlers participate in coaching and fun competitions in various whitewater spots across the country. 
 
 
 
 
The most recent event was on the Nene whitewater course. Thankfully this year we had exclusive use of the course as nearly 80 [...]

Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Gear 4 Women
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I’ve just finished 4 weeks of coaching and guiding in the French Alps. I met some lovely people, paddled some great rivers and generally had a lot of fun. Here’s a few photos:

Jon Warwick paddling the Fournel with a back brace on. Gnarly.

Nick Pearce and I on his virgin mission into Chatau Q. Photo: John [...]

Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Gear 4 Women
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It almost seems standard nowadays to have torrential downpoors in the UK in the middle of summer and whilst almost everyone else hates it Whitewater lovers relish the rain!
Myself Rosie and Pastie headed into Welsh water fall country yesterday evening to the river Melte in the Ystradfellte area. It was higher that any of had seen before [...]

Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Paul Robertson
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hello there 
This is my first entry into the PALM Blog… but will defentaly not be the last one! Right now i got more time than wished behind the computer, so i give you guys a little low down whats going on in my life right now! 
Unfourtenalty i did hurt my back after excessive paddling in [...]

Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by Simon Hirter
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Hi, as this is my first entry on the Palm blog – I thought I’d let you know a bit about me, 
first thing – my name is Tasha, but you should know that by now! I’m 14 years old and I’ve been paddling seriously for 18 months.
I first started paddling one holiday down in Cornwall [...]

Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by Gear 4 Women
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