Bloodvein River, Canada Day 9: Rapid 65 – Rapid 78 (29km) Breaking camp is now a well-oiled process; tents down, kit packed away, breakfast eaten, boats loaded and away we go again! The weather was a bit kinder today, back to more sunshine albeit with some headwind throughout the day, pushing Force 4 at times. The first rapid appeared within 50m of camp, followed by more flat sections with grade-one… Read More »2024 Bloodvein River, Canada Day 9 by Ruth Alter

Bloodvein River, Canada Day 8: Dancing Fire Rapids – Rapid 65 (10km) by Ian Bell After a night of lying in the tent and watching the lightning storm but not hearing any thunder and no rain, we had a late start due to having to complete the repair to Martin and Nikki’s canoe. This gave a chance for a more relaxed morning start than the last few days. Once underway… Read More »2024 Bloodvein River, Canada Day 8 by Ian Bell

Bloodvein River, Canada Day 7: Kautunigan Lake – Dancing Fire Rapids (31km) by Mike Alter Despite what Nikki has said about Day 6, we (Ruth & I) were never in any danger of inspecting the riverbed. Well, that is how it felt whilst running the rapid and giving a big palm push off the rock whilst the boat was at about 45 degrees, I may however review this opinion if… Read More »2024 Bloodvein River, Canada Day 7 by Mike Alter

Bloodvein River, Canada Day 6: Rapid 37 – Kautunigan Lake (24km) by Nikki Aldridge After our usual breakfast and de-camp, we had an easy start to the day’s paddling. Before long we reached our first rapid of the day, which was an easy grade 2. That was followed by another divergence in the river. The South route would take us via Island Rapids, a Grade 4/5, or in other words,… Read More »2024 Bloodvein River, Canada Day 6 by Nikki Aldridge

Bloodvein River, Canada Day 5 – Goose Rapids – Rapid 37 (22km) by Graham Rowe Comfortable, dry night at a rocky Peninsula/Island Camp… Pleasant morning and start, but a change in the weather was to come. Ian is in the bow, and I am at the stern. We paddled down short easy water to Goose Rapid (rapid 29). The grade 5 of the first drop was an obvious portage, then… Read More »2024 Bloodvein River, Canada Day 5 by Graham Rowe

Bloodvein River, Canada Day 4 – Stonehouse Rapids – Goose Rapids (27km) by “Martin Aldridge” Well what a rollercoaster of a day. Three great successes, and then a near disaster. So, I’m going to start this report with restating one of the golden rules of expedition (especially wilderness expeditions), and that is, you MUST always take care of your boat. It is the one piece of equipment that is hard… Read More »2024 Bloodvein River, Canada Day 4 by “Martin Aldridge”

Agenda AGM / Paddler of the Year Awards and club presentations of major trips Monday 28th October 2024 Location – Liverpool Marina – Spinnaker Suite main conference room (Access from the bar) Apologies – 7:30 – 8:00 pm – Catch up with Members – Slideshow of the club`s activities over the year. Liverpool Canoe Club is open to all and aims “to provide the maximum canoeing and kayaking opportunities for… Read More »Agenda AGM / Paddler of the Year Awards and club presentations of major trips 2024

2024 Outer Hebrides – Fuzzy WaterDay 16 Saturday 31st Aug – The Ferry to Uig and home It was time to pack the cars and leave our cottage, Tigh-na-Mara, which had been our home for a week while on Harris. We headed down to the port town of Tarbet. More tweed shops and coffee overlooking the harbour). At midday, we boarded the ferry to Uig on the Isle of Sky.… Read More »2024 Outer Hebrides Day 16 The Ferry to Uig and home

Bloodvein River, Canada Day 3 – Artery Lake to Stone house Rapids (28km) by Ruth E Today was the first day of multiple rapids, and multiple portages! After breaking camp, off we set for a day covering 28km and rapids 10 to 23. The weather was glorious and very warm! We came to the first rapid, number 10, which separates the upper part of Artery Lake from the lower part.… Read More »2024 Bloodvein River, Canada Day 3 by Ruth E

2024 Outer Hebrides – Fuzzy Water Day 15 Friday 30th Aug – Atlantic sun, sand, and swell by Christine Bond The last paddle of the Outer Hebrides trip…. The wind had been forecast to drop, the sun was forecast to shine and a good trip to the Atlantic West coast was the plan. Unfortunately, the wind had not quite read the weather forecast from the previous day so it was… Read More »2024 Outer Hebrides Day 15 Atlantic sun, sand, and swell by Christine Bond