A dry spell over the last few days left me with no excuse but to get on with some work, fortunately I was reminded about the Moriston, which is releasing every tuesday afternoon throughout the summer. Bumping into a group from Sheffield Uni at the put in, it’s quite apparent that this reliable run is [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2009 by Ed Smith
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After our first successful mission in the North west, we decided to focus on the Central Highlands and on the possibility of some bigger drops and bigger volume. So, it was back onto the train ready for a 28 hour journey to the city of Nah Trang, followed by an invigorating 5 hours in a [...]
Posted on July 28th, 2009 by British Universities Kayaking Expedition
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At 6pm the other night when I answered the phone to Dave Martin, a fellow weegee boater, the best we were hoping for the following day was a nice mid level blast down the Etive and tribs. However, driving up the A82 we were delighted with the monsoon conditions which hit us as we rounded the point [...]
Posted on July 25th, 2009 by Ed Smith
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Hey it’s Tasha
This summer, tomorrow in fact, I’m off to Canada to become a Keener at Ottawa Kayak school! For those of you who don’t know, this is a really great teen kayaking school on all the BIG waves on the ottawa river and it’s focused on teenagers really wanting to improve their paddling. As [...]
Posted on July 24th, 2009 by Gear 4 Women
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After 4 years away, racing returned to the Ula Valley in Norway this weekend for the Ula Extreme Race 09. With perfect levels, 40 of Europe’s finest turned out to battle it out for the title.
Full report and results coming soon but in the meantime check out this video:
Ula Extreme Race 09 on Youtube
Posted on July 22nd, 2009 by Palm HQ
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I have just arrived back in NZ for two weeks downtime before jumping back on the plane and heading to North America for more adventures. My return coincided with one of NZ’s frequent winter storms so not one to miss the chance to huck some drops I loaded up the truck and headed for the [...]
Posted on July 21st, 2009 by Ben Brown
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The British Universities Kayak Expedition 2009 is well underway. A long, and somewhat convoluted journey across China (which turns out to be quite big), into Vietnam and ended with the team plus boats in Hanoi.
After a few days of arranging logistics and acquiring information, the team headed north towards Ba Be Lake in search of [...]
Posted on July 18th, 2009 by British Universities Kayaking Expedition
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I have just returned from an awesome expedition in Iceland where we were filming for Rush Sturges and Tyler Bradts upcoming feature ‘Dream Result’. Along with Rush, Tyler and Patrick Camblin we headed to the Land of Fire and Ice in search of big waterfall adventures!
We spent three weeks circumnavigating the entire Island and [...]
Posted on July 15th, 2009 by Ben Brown
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I’ve been meaning to put this post up for a bit, but am just now getting my mind around what I wanted to write down. This year I decided to spend two weeks in May kayaking in the Sierras of California. After a couple of years of trying to time some of the more famous [...]
Posted on July 15th, 2009 by Andy Holcombe
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Not all paddling on the Thames is recreational during the summer. The whitewater crowd are still out and about.
From the Tuesday night squirt boat sessions at Chertsey weir run by the guys from WWTCC, to the Boulters Youth Freestyle event and slalom competitions, its all happening.
Its been a while since any of us from Palm [...]
Posted on July 13th, 2009 by Paul Robertson
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