by Daz Clarkson Born in 1975 Daz has paddled around the world, including Pakistan, Morocco, France, Italy, Nepal, Switzerland, Norway and Canada, this year see's him journeying to Tibet and tackling the Grand Canyon of the Stikine. If you want to read more then try Daz's first book, Riding the Tears of Everest, published by …
After a season on dry rivers and cries of when is it going to rain the first YCC Extreme race was party to the highest conditions any of us had seen on the Upper Tees. Organiser X Pres colluded with colleagues and hastily revised his original grand master plan and broke the river down into …
Scotland 24th – 27th March Three cars headed north early on the Friday morning, with the weather man promising rain all day long. We arrived at the Bridge of Orchy and inspected the guage, the level wasn’t even registering, the short drive to Glen Etive revealed a trickle coming down the Allt Charroiun, so 5 …
Upper Tees 22.01.06. Park at the High Force car park and pay your 3 to paddle, this section has a year round paddling agreement in place and runs fron ditch low to spate conditions. Getting on Below High Force there are a number of features to keep you interested until you reach low Force where …
The Kent – 15.01.06. Den – you will do as I tell you Three of the ladies employed Dennis of Kayakojacko for the weekend to go through some river and boating skills, after spending day one on the Tees it was off to the Kent for more practice and coaching. Although it had been raining in …
Etive, 27 December 2006. We knew the water levels were low as we headed north but the Etive can be paddled with barely any water in it as we were about to prove. Getting in at Triple steps we slid down the first two drops and boofed the third. I followed the …
Washington / Idaho / Oregon May 2003 Three of us flew to Seattle, hired a truck and drove round in search of water, the Cascades Mountains lie a couple of hours east of the city and there are plenty of rivers to chose from. This was my first trip abroad with a kayak and the …
Park n Huck 12 / 19 November 2005 You kind of know you could be in trouble when the first question that Dennis of Kayakojacko asks you is have you all brought elbow pads? We set off early Saturday morning stopping in the lakes on the way up hoping to paddle Newlands Beck, however low water …
Austria 2005 I found myself in a difficult position and one I was certainly not used to.There was a paddling trip in progress and for the first time in the last three years I was not on it. Three cars had left for Austria on the Friday and I was at Teesside, having fun, but …
Ottawa River – Canada – September 2005 The Ottawa in Eastern Canada provides some big, warm, white water action.A bunch of us headed over there at the beginning of September. Landing in the evening at Toronto airport we phoned our car rental company and they came along and picked us up in the 7-seater minivan we …