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		<title>Get your Skates on!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Palm Equipment</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the tail end of 2011 Welsh kayak anglers Andrew Williams and Gareth Bowen took themsleves north, to Scotland, in search of Skate&#8230;&#8230; looks like the Aleutain suits were needed in that cold weather. We had awful weather for the week and only managed to get out onto the Skate grounds for two sessions , [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olly Sanders Expedition DVD trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who don&#8217;t know Olly, he is a long time Palm paddler, but more than that he is a highly regarded sea coach, guide and expedition paddler&#8230;. as well as being a formidable mountaineer! In other words when it comes to big trips and big adventures he knows what&#8217;s what. From the trailer and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kayak re-cycling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dagger Europe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is lot of plastic out there from 20 plus years of kayaks and canoes being made this way. Luckily the properties of the polyethylene material give it a massive lifespan, but at some point boats get written off or folk will want to retire their craft and so the question pops up &#8211; what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Exe Big Paddle 2011 – The Sunny Side</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Trew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AS Watersports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shaking off sleep from Saturday’s ever-successful South West canoe show, the team were on site early on Sunday to set up the Exe Big paddle. It didn’t take long for the Piazza to take on the appearance of a festival site, with tents, bunting and boats all creating a mass of colour ready for paddlers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Headwinds and Distant Horizons on Lake Athabasca</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>North American Odyssey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have spent the past week paddling on Lake Athabasca. After making our way off of the Tazin River through a series of lakes and portages, we came out onto the big lake near the community of Camsell Portage. It is a very small town, but they do have all the modern conveniences – electricity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forest Fire on the Tazin River</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>North American Odyssey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever seen a forest fire up close? Well we hadn&#8217;t until this past week. On Tuesday as we left Hill Island Lake, we could see smoke toward the south but we figured that it was a long ways away. On Wednesday, the plumes of smoke grew closer and closer as we paddled south [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ness Marathon 2011, Wilderness Systems Tempest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Mackinnon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the Wilderness system Tempest a fast boat, is it stable and can it deal with the rough stuff ? Well I raced a plastic tempest 170 down the river Ness last weekend in the annual Ness marathon 2011 short course  and managed to win, beating the other entrants and coming only 30 second slower than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The North American Odyssey: 11,700 Miles by Kayak, Canoe, and Dog Sled</title>
		<link>http://www.palmequipmenteurope.com/blogs/tour/the-north-american-odyssey-11700-miles-by-kayak-canoe-and-dog-sled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>North American Odyssey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Earth Day (April 22) of 2010 Dave Freeman and I began a three year, 11,700 mile journey across North America by kayak, canoe and dog sled. Our goals are to increase awareness and promote conservation of North America’s waterways and wild places while actively engaging over 100,000 elementary and middle school students in the journey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An East Coast Summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Holcombe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Holcombe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Great Falls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This marks the first summer I haven&#8217;t traveled out west in a long time.  The west coast gets all the glory for summertime paddling in the US and rightly so as California, the Pacific Northwest, Idaho, Montana and Colorado are all at their prime right now.  However it doesn&#8217;t mean that you can fully overlook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Wonderland on Lake Bala</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Burnard - Voyageur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was lucky enough this week to be joined by good friend and fellow paddler Chris Charlton, along with a group of first year degree students from UCLAN (University of Central Lancashire) who were studying a mixture Outdoor Leadership and Adventure Sports Leadership. We were based out of  Ty&#8217;n Dwr Hall in Llangollen North Wales. [...]]]></description>
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