French Alps 2019 paddling trip Day 13 L’Argentière-la-Bessée to Embrun 2019 by Stuart and Kurt Toulson We departed the campsite on what was to be the club’s penultimate trip in the Alps this Year at 10am. Most departed from the beach, whilst a few carried up to the top of the slalom course, a great… Read More »French Alps 2019 paddling trip – Day 13 L’Argentière-la-Bessée to Embrun 2019 by Stuart and Kurt Toulson

French Alps 2019 paddling trip Day 12a The Upper Ubaye by Martin Aldridge Another “early” start (the definition of early varies throughout the group and has a strong correlation to the previous evenings activities). Whilst we’re on the subject of the previous evening, it was the groups evening out the night before. We ventured into… Read More »French Alps 2019 paddling trip – Day 12a The Upper Ubaye by Martin Aldridge

French Alps 2019 paddling trip Day 10a The Middle Guil by Kirk Williams A happy bunch of paddlers set of from the campsite around 9:06 am, somewhat later than the announced start due to the driver looking for his keys. Or just being late. Or something. But definitely not texting. It just needed mentioning. We… Read More »French Alps 2019 paddling trip – Day 10a The Middle Guil by Kirk Williams

French Alps 2019 paddling trip Day 11a Upper Durance by Michael O`Rourke A leisurely depart time of 10am saw us waving goodbye to John on his journey to see his sister/avoid the minibus journey home. We were re-joined by Stuart and Dom after their previous day’s excursion to the Chateau Queryas in Dom’s hire car… Read More »French Alps 2019 paddling trip – Day 11a Upper Durance by Michael O`Rourke

French Alps 2019 paddling trip Day 10c The Guil Valley by Nadja Ford On the 10th day of the Alps tour a group of five people, the three Twingo Boys and two Fords, made a detour from the rivers and went off site seeing. The morning promised us a glorious day so away we went.… Read More »French Alps 2019 paddling trip – Day 10c The Guil Valley by Nadja Ford

French Alps 2019 paddling trip Day 10b Chateau Queyras by Kirk Williams We headed up to Chateau Queyras after a great morning on the Middle Guil. There was a bit of talk in the minibus about plans for the afternoon, mostly about ice cream, a little about Via Ferrata, and a few whispers about the “toilet… Read More »French Alps 2019 paddling trip – Day 10b Chateau Queyras by Kirk Williams

French Alps 2019 paddling trip Day 9b The Upper Gyronde by Aleksander Ford The Gyronde was alpine great volume grade 4 – river which started from Valloise to Les Vigneax . It is formed from the Gyr and Onde which meet at their confluence at the barrage in Les Vigneax where we got on and… Read More »French Alps 2019 paddling trip – Day 9b The Upper Gyronde by Aleksander Ford

French Alps 2019 paddling trip Day 9a The Upper Durance by Hannah Bellamy Monday was to be a two-river day, and in the morning, we headed to the Upper Durance. It was to be a warmup for those who would be paddling the Gyronde in the afternoon, and with plenty of opportunities for eddy hopping… Read More »French Alps 2019 paddling trip – Day 9a The Upper Durance by Hannah Bellamy

French Alps 2019 paddling trip Day 9c The Middle Durance by Jake Toulson So the Toulson brigade arrived yesterday with a little warm up session in the lake Kurt playing assistant coach to Jake, and got him warmed up for today’s paddle on the river Durance. Setting off around 10am with beautiful blue skies we… Read More »French Alps 2019 paddling trip – Day 9c The Middle Durance by Jake Toulson

French Alps 2019 paddling trip Day 08b Lilo Race Slalom Course 2019 by Neil Jones Return of the famous Lilo Race not for the faint hearted, only for the stupid!! So after a nice leisurely morning paddle down the Durance with a bit of tasty surfing to finish off at St Clements we returned to… Read More »French Alps 2019 paddling trip – Day 08b Lilo Race Slalom Course 2019 by Neil Jones