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December is here…. and I have a lovely shiny new pyranha BURN!! So I took my new toy up to Scotland for a week of fun We got a few good runs in, the Orchy – the Spean on 3 pipes…. right from the dam all the way down to the end of the Spean gorge (missing out the minessy section) – four sections of the river in one day (three of them new sections too)!...

This has been the coldest winter in the UK for 30 years apparently, which I could well believe as I was wondering what I was doing breaking the ice at the put in at Hurley weekend before last. However our luck changed the following weekend. I could feel the excitement starting to build as the weather forecast came, the snow was due to melt and the rain forecast was looking good. Matty was keen for a day trip and he gathered a small team together. We were planning to head to the Mellte and...

Hey guys… I got my new boat a couple of weeks back and have been testing it out at Hurley – here are some of the results… I’ve found it to be smooth and fast on the wave with forgiving edges. The molan is slightly narrower than my star, so easier on those edge to edge...

Whilst I realise that it is not always the aim of the game… I have about 3 minutes to go before leaving for Nepal, and I still hadn’t updated in relation to my amazing summer, so I thought I would just put up some of the best pictures – and promise to do more commentary for my next updates. Norway is heaven in a kayak – and as you may have gathered from earlier posts, my first love in the kayaking world. Here are some creeking pics from the summer in Norway, and a...

I arrived in Nepal at 6pm on a Thursday night – more than 24 hours after schedule – and my friends Adam and Sara had already organised a chilled out class 3 multi-day trip on the Trisuli with a local rafting company – starting at 6am! The roads from Kathmandu were pretty chocka with traffic. Riding on the roof of the...

After the hustle and bustle of Kathmandu, it was a relief for Sara, Adam and I to arrive in the peaceful lakeside city of Pokhara. The mood here is very calm and relaxed, and we settled into a cheap guesthouse costing £1.50 a night including a clean ensuite bathroom, which had been recommended by some scumbag kayakers we met on the day-long busride between Kathmandu and Pokhara. We also met up with Canadian friends, Mark and Michelle who settled into Penguin Guesthouse with us. The Upper...

 We found some random Swedish guys wearing kayaking t-shirts in Pokhara and ended up scheming with them to do some boating. We set off on another multi-day trip starting on the Modi Khola and continuing on into the Kali Gandaki river. We started off with a crew of 7 (6 burns and only one mamba between us!), but Sara was struck with a touch of Dehli Belly and had to walk out after one day – leaving us with a majority of Swedes on the team!

Nepal – Wrap Up

Local villagers gather to wave goodbye as we leave in the morning A month goes by quickly in Nepal, and we finished off by doing the ueber-classic of the Sun Kosi. It is a beautiful river – mainly class three. We decided to do a lightly packed multi-day and stop off in the evenings to see if we could persuade whoever...

I have arrived in Chile! First things first, the boys bought a sweet truck… and we headed 4 hours south of Santiago to the “Siete Tazas” or seven tea-cups… on the Rio Claro. Then we met up with some american boaters who were kind enough to take us down the upper section known as the 22 waterfalls. Here are the pictures in no particular order! Now down in Pucon where we have rented a house and are hitting up some local runs here. Another update soon!

Upper Palguin

    We are now basing ourselves around Pucon – and the local run here is a short but sweet section called the Upper Palguin. As with...

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