Archive for the ‘guiding’ Category

French Alps 2010

Earlier this year we spent several weeks in the French Alps, where we had great water levels and super-hot sunshine almost every day We ran a variety of trips, bespoke courses and guided river runs around the Briancon / Embrun / Guil / Ubaye area – confidence boosters, white water skills, river leadership skills and [...]

Newsletter : April 2010

Hello and welcome to the latest FlowFree newsletter! Well February and March were very busy indeed here at FlowFree. We’ve run trips abroad, freestyle courses, safety courses, week-long bespoke courses, BCU courses and white water skills courses of all varieties. And our coaches have been just as busy in their spare time: slalom competitions (see [...]

Conwy Falls – don’t end up on THAT rock…

Conwy Falls has been an infamous site for kayakers for many years. The waterfall itself has had a handful of successful descents but upstream of the falls lies a nasty rapid, which in recent years has been the scene of an increasing number of incidents. You see the nasty rapid I talk about lies just [...]