An hour north of Newcastle is the coastal town of Bamburgh, famous for its castle and beaches, 2 k off shore lie the Farne Islands, there can be up to 28 of them depending upon the tidal state. We paddled out to Inner Farne, Knoxes reef and the East and West Wideopens. Leaving the beach …
One of the many side streams adding to the flow of the Conwy flows through the Dolgarrog Gorge, a steep little tributary that would write off a boat on the first of its many drops, so leaving the boats at home, we walked up it. Looking out from the gorge across the Conwy Valley. Another …
Sometimes when there’s nothing better to do we go for a ride, it’s dirty job but someone has to do it! A local bridleway goes through a golf course, we interupted the early morning “sport” and demonstrated what you could be doing, instead of spoiling a good walk. Stainburn rocks, in more way than one. …
Billed as Atlas Descent we were surprised by just how much ‘up’ there could be in a descent, this is Exodus’s longest running bike trip and was the last one of this season due to the summer temperatures making it unfeasiblly hot later in the year, but now we just have to endure the wind …
With the weather forecasting gales and rain for the weekend we were looking forward to a good few days boating, too much wind and rain on the Friday and huge dump of snow on the Sunday night, Monday morning reduced out boating days to two We did manage to get in the Coe Gorge in lowish …
Daz Clarkson has been paddling for half his life across the globe in all sorts of exoctic locations, including Norway, France, Italy, Switzerland, Morocco, Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet, Canada and Alaska. These days you are just as likely to find him closer to home, now settled in North Wales he can often be found walking into a …
The Megavalanche starts on snow near the top of a mountain and you race downhill…. How hard can that be? Pretty dam hard by all accounts, for a full report www.enduranceracing.co.uk, but Rich reckons that he encountered jutst about every type of terrain imaginable, starting on snow down to a rocky plateau, giving way to dirt …
The first rapid and dropping down to the first gorge Few people will even be aware of its existence as they drive by along the A5 past the Conwy Falls cafe, just above the River Conwy but the Fairy Glen is the stuff of myths and legends. Widely regarded as a test piece paddle the …
by Jo Canoeing in Nepal, in Africa, South America and other far-flung places is an amazing experience, not only for the biggest, steepest, scariest rivers in the world and breath-taking scenery, but also for the vastly different cultures and hospitality of the people we meet river guides become firm friends, families in incredibly remote villages …
With Nepal being featured on one of the shiny TV holiday programmes earlier in the year and all the posts on UK Rivers it seems like Nepal was going to open season this year. There’s more to Nepal than the biggest lump of rock on the planet… We land at Kathmandu and are met by …