Patagonia International Kayak Safari, Argentina & Chile It is the Rio Futaleufu that inspired this trip, translated it means Big River and it did not disappoint. Early research via the web revealed that it would be difficult to take our own boats here as we have done on previous trips to other destinations. It is …
Las Leonas, a 10 meter waterfall lies on the Upper Fuy, Chile.
I'm scared There is a bottomless pit in my stomach and it's churning away I am shaking pretty much all over as the adrenalin courses through my veins And this is 30 minutes after completing Inferno Canyon Inferno Canyon is a 3-kilometre stretch of the Futaleufu in the heart of Patagonia, Chile We have arrived …
Lying behind Blencathra and taking its water from here and off the back of Skiddaw the Caldew starts in an open valley at the road head with a couple of decent drops before mellowing out as it descends down to the treeline.
The Cwm Llan lies on the south side of Snowden and provides an afternoon’s entertainment. About an hours walk up Snowden places you high above the valley floor. A series of slides and drops that you can inspect on the way up ending at a significant fall, both left and right lines go if you have …
By Dr Amy Jane Beer The Original Mountain Marathon, held on 28-29th October this year is a reincarnation of the Karrimor International Mountain Marathon or KIMM, known and loved by a number of YCC members. Its a two day event, in a lumpy, inhospitable location, where about 1500 teams of two dash about getting …
By Dr Amy Jane Beer Shetland has what has to be some of the best sea paddling in the world, and this was one of the reasons we chose to go there on our honeymoon. After a few days rather luxurious chilling out we booked ourselves a couple of boats and a guide to show …
The waterfall section of the Upper Swale lies above Muker on the B6270, Swaledale. Sarah had paddle the day before in optimum flows and we caught it today as the level dropped off, a bit scrapy here and there, the main features were not far from being perfect. Upper Kisden, running hard right at this flow The …
We knew it had been raining it was just a question of where, passing over the Swale on the A1, ditch low, the Greta on the A66, you could walk down it, Abbey rapids on the Middle Tees looked interesting, Bowlees Beck was certainly flowing, The Tees was almost out of its banks, huge. We …
by Jo So as a great man once said (or was it Driller), Get out, Do stuff.So I packed my rock-shoes and chalk bag and hit the world. First up, the desert.Id always wanted to experience deserts but a distinct lack of rivers had pretty well knocked this off our joint hit list.So when a …