French Alps 2018 paddling trip Day 10 Upper Guisane by Nick Coughlin Twenty-two intrepid LCC paddlers set off at the leisurely time of 10am to tackle the Upper Guisane. The Guisane is one of my favourite rivers and this was the second time we had paddled it in the past seven days. It is a… Read More »French Alps 2018 paddling trip Day 10 Upper Guisane by Nick Coughlin

French Alps 2018 paddling trip Day 9 The Ubaye Race Course by Steve Hitchen An early start for LCC saw us setting off just after the bread delivery at 8am. With a second quick pit stop for pastries we were underway. The drive takes us along the Durance which runs past our camp site. We… Read More »French Alps 2018 paddling trip Day 9 The Ubaye Race Course by Steve Hitchen

French Alps 2018 paddling trip Day 9 The Upper Ubaye by Ciaran Fahey Earliest start of the trip so far for the clubs 2018 Alps trip, at an on the bus time of 8am. The destination for today’s trip was the Upper Ubaye a grade 3, despite the early start the long drive to the… Read More »French Alps 2018 paddling trip Day 9 The Upper Ubaye by Ciaran Fahey

Polo Practice Session run by Richie On Saturday I went to canoe polo practice organised by Richie. There were not many people there, probably due to the rain, but we still went ahead with it with only 4 people (Callum, Luke, John and myself). We first did some passing around and then did some dribbling… Read More »Polo Practice Session run by Richie

French Alps 2018 paddling trip Day 8 The Upper Gyronde by Stephen Hitchen Lunch over our intrepid LCC members put in just below the barrage at Vallouise. 16 this time, so four groups of four with a skilled leader in each. Group A-with Keith, B with Graham, C with John Cooke while the D’s had… Read More »French Alps 2018 paddling trip Day 8 The Upper Gyronde by Stephen Hitchen

French Alps 2018 paddling trip Day 8 The Upper Durance by Stephen Hitchen 9am start for day one, week 2 of LLC’s Alps Kayaking trip saw 19 of us enjoy the upper Durance, which is a grade 2 river and perfect for the newbies who arrived Saturday to stretch their legs and also the for… Read More »French Alps 2018 paddling trip Day 8 The Upper Durance by Stephen Hitchen

French Alps 2018 paddling trip Day 7 The Durance by Helen Siertsema Sunshine was elusive for our run of the Sunshine run today despite promises of sunny weather by the Meteo. Previous rainfall had kept levels nice and bouncy as we had a lie down and snooze in our boats. Some of us were hitting… Read More »French Alps 2018 paddling trip Day 7 The Durance by Helen Siertsema

Nepal Sun Koshi Expedition – Day 4 (4th April) by Darren Bohanna It was easily the trickiest day of the expedition. The Harkabur rapids awaited. The day started out much like the others with a generally pleasant bob down the river up until the river bent sharply round to the left with the volume of… Read More »Nepal Sun Koshi Expedition – Day 4 (4th April) by Darren Bohanna

French Alps 2018 paddling trip Day 6 Middle Guil by Ron Wood 9am sharp off to the Middle Guil, an Alpine classic 3-4 run, the merry band of 13 were excited but also maybe a little nervous that this was going to be a more challenging day. The easier “warm up” initial section proved interesting,… Read More »French Alps 2018 paddling trip Day 6 Middle Guil by Ron Wood

French Alps 2018 paddling trip Day 6 Via ferrata at Château-Queyras by Michael O’Rourke and Trevor Strain We turned up after our mornings paddle and had a walk to do a recce of Chateau-Queyras gorge at Via ferrata. After seeing the raging running torrent through the gorge five of us decided we really wanted to… Read More »French Alps 2018 paddling trip Via ferrata at Château-Queyras by Michael O’Rourke and Trevor Strain