Lakes trip was tops

Photos Andy Sq. 
Hooray for lakes trip!
Staying in the village hall worked well, bargain cheap and no need to put tents up.
Saturday: Everyone did the Brathay and Leven – we also did the lower down bit of the Leven, which had some nice rapids, and an unrunnable weir (which Andy Sq and Mark ran). Team Stu added the Troutbeck [...]

BUSA polo – 12/13 April – sign up now

Claire is going to send in entries on March 7th, so you need to tell her asap if you are interested in playing.
We’ll be in the chillcheater league – ideally a mixture of olds (for structure) and students who didn’t get into the first teams.
Cost is £15-£20 per person, includes camping, entry fee and meal – [...]

La crevaison

Photo: Pete F.

Three men in a boat, Durance.

Loonsey ice climbing on Ben Nevis – featured blog of the week

Amazing pictures of spider-glacier-girl: Read Lindsey’s blogpost:
Loonsey: Ben Nevis Feb 2008
Really great that your shoulder is getting better, great stuff!

Article on Ben Nevis, as well as Loonseys other adventures, can be found on takeittothebridge blog.
Photos: Jos Style, Andy Bottrill, Lindsey Kennedy

Talk report – Simon Tapley

Photos: Alistair Marshall. See more photos at Fatcatproductions, and this blog.
Really enjoyed Si Tapley’s talk, great to see what amazing kinds of whitewater there are in Greenland, and to hear about his trip.
Simon was really down-to-earth about the problems they encountered, and gave us a feeling for what its like to be so isolated from everywhere.
Greenland seems to [...]

New river signals needed

Alps 2006 photo by Pete F

Austria 2007 Photo by Cath

Yorkshire 2008 Calder, floods.

Pancakes were lovely

Potsy only had 9 pancakes, because he’s “on a diet.” Its called the “9 pancake diet.”
Dunno who won at most-pancakes or best verse? Very nice party, thanks Ade and Alison and Dinny.
Good timing, only 2 weeks of Lent now.

Wales 9th/10th Feb

Pics from Mary H , Stanley pics
So Saturday morning saw Stu,Helen,Dale and Joe arrive early morning at my house, where i had prepared pre-trip bacon sarnies. Then off we went to meet up with the guys that had set off the day before and stayed in the camping barn. We convened at the Llugwy at the [...]

Pink is the new black

From palm. Lovely.

Kent

The Kent: Sue, Daffers, Di, Tian, Si, Rachel, Helen, Rosie, Phil H, Claire, Penny. Tian rolled so hard he did a 360. Helen had a spot of bother just above L shaped weir. Simons legs fell off and he is going to get a creek boat.  Here is Daffers on Force Falls. What a lovely day.

Then a [...]

Ingleborough – 10 Feb

Welcome to 10 Feb, official twin-town of the Summer Solstice.
What an amazing day. Wall to wall sunshine, and picnic on the grass.

Ingleborough was very nice, great views over the valley, Pen-y-ghent, Wernside and towards Ingleton.

Being pathalogically woossy about heights, it was a bit too spooky for me to stand anywhere near Gaping Gill, so I [...]

Going underground before it’s my time

Report by Leo. Pictures by Cath.

On one of the sunniest days of the year 11 of us decided to go caving. After eating Caveman Breakfasts at the Inglesport Cafe we headed for the Ireby Fell Cavern. After a series of 30’ climbs down wobbly ladders we had brought along, we got to a breathtaking underground water course carved [...]

Talk Announcement – 20 Feb – Simon Tapley

“Greenland Whitewater” – Simon Tapley – Wed 20 Feb – 7.30pm – International Lounge – 2nd floor Liverpool Guild of Students – £3.50 (Adults / Students / Children)
Second in the Liverpool Kayak talks series – another whitewater treat, this time, student boaters in Greenland - check out the talks website. Really looking forward to this.
Well, some kind of  summer [...]

More slalom pics

These are more slalom pics from BUSA 2008. Brave efforts of our capitaino in the C1, and some nice pics of Flic doing K1 – many thanks Matt Corke (Durham) - Great photos!
 

See previous slalom post for more photos and lucc website for reports.

Ferocious animal

 
A peaceful scene. Sadly, just moments later, this fluffy kitten was devoured by a ferocious animal, which, having eaten every last scrap, settled down for a post-dinner nap.