Rock Climbing in Snowdonia – All you need is “Hope”
From a weekend of planned kayaking how did I come to be Rock Climbing in Snowdonia instead… I had the weekend to myself, Laura was house-sitting (again), so on a Friday night I was sat watching TV and trying to dream up plans for the weekend. Andy, a friend of mine messaged to ask about…
Funny Old Life – 2 years on
I was once again reminded by Facebook that it was on this day in 2012 that I finished a career which I had been in for nearly 10 years, it was the kicking off point for roller-coaster period in my life which I talked about here: https://wetandmucky.com/its-a-funny-old-life So, what has the last 2 years been…
Freestyle in the Autumn Sunshine
Freestyle in the Autumn Sunshine A weekend with no kids and no Laura, I found myself at a loose end and desperately wanting to paddle, unfortunately this was the weekend after the epic rains and it seemed everything had dried up. Then I got a message from a friend that his plans had also changed.. …
How to Improve the Roll – The Kayaking Journal
Rolling rolling rolling, keep ’em wagons rolling… Right, rolling. It’s hard. How can we make it better? How to improve the roll is possibly one of the most asked questions in white water kayaking. When I went through a long period of my roll being flat out hopeless it was the most frustrating thing I […]…
Review – Jackson Levator GoPro Pole Mount —
I must come clean, I am not much of a handyman. Often people refer to the fact they could ‘knock one of those up’ given the right materials but I am more likely to knock things down when I approach a task with tool in hand. Therefore making a pole mount for my GoPro wasn’t […]…
After work Hills…
On Monday I found myself finishing my work day in Malvern, and by happy coincidence I had travelled past home to get there and called in to grab my bike. Despite living in Worcestershire for all of my *cough* years I have only been on the Malvern Hills once, so I thought I’d take the…
A general guide to the Soča River area
A great write up on the Soča River Area by Simon Wyndham over at Kayakjournal, Click on the link at the bottom to go to the full article. I will preface this article by saying that this is not the Kayaking Gods guide to the Bovec Soča area in Slovenia. But I hope that…