Extremsportveko

Last week Team Palm paddlers Matt Tidy, Nick Horward, and Lowri Davies were in Voss for their annual extreme sports festival ‘Ekstremsportveko’
For one adrenaline fueled week long event, skydivers, BASE jumpers, skiers, bikers and kayakers from all over the world congregate in the small Norwegian town of Voss to go huge off cliffs, waterfalls, [...]

The alternative Etive

It’s that time of year where the Etive levels are a wee bit low, for more experienced boaters there is however a more challenging alternative. Pushy enough for a bit of excitement and short enough to do some ‘laps’ the Dallness Section is a saviour in drier times.

Starting off, the first drop has two obvious [...]

They don’t make ‘em like that anymore

Pah!
We had a fairly new Dagger Approach returned for a check over this week after it fell off the car on the Motorway. Written off right?
Apparently not. When we checked the depth of the plastic in the most worn areas we found it was still thick enough to be classed as a first quality boat. [...]

Molto Pericoloso! My season kicks off in Italy….

Hello there, so I’ve just returned from a beautiful week in the Italian and Swiss Alps. After spending a day on the middle section of the Verzasca, we stopped off for lunch on its unfeasibly large dam, before heading to the rarely run Loana and Basso for an epic day’s hiking, kayaking, and some gnarly [...]