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A Scottish get-away

Halloween is my birthday. Yes, I’m a witch! And what better way to celebrate than a quick mission to Scotland with about 45 friends / friends-of-friends? With only a few days to spare (and one of them spent in A&E after an unfortunate, comedy-yet-totally-sober incident with a Giant Jenga set) we bagged only a few […]
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Epic summer (part 2)

UK – French Alps – Lyon – French Alps – Norway – Uganda – UK – Austrian Alps – French Alps – UK What a summer! Since May I’ve been travelling around running FlowFree trips, boating with friends, filming for upcoming projects and racing, with a very tight schedule to fit it all in! Last […]
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Lyon Playboating

Last week I was running a FlowFree Playboating Development Week in Lyon. We had lots of fun and managed to catch Hawaii-sur-Rhone in good conditions as well as a couple of local slalom courses. Here’s a couple of pics from the week: One of the students on the course has written up a report of his […]
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Colombia Jungle Kayaking – Video Teaser

Sorry for the blog silence! Our expedition to Colombia went really well: lots of exciting rivers in super remote and committing canyons and the odd epic to add to the adventure. We kept a detailed blog on the trip blog, so if you’ve been patiently waiting for updates here I can only apologise, but at least you can read that at your leisure. Hopefully this little video will make up for the silence here…

We are currently doing a lecture tour, dates of which can be found here – so come and hear about all the epics and adventures, see more video footage and some stunning photos. If there’s not a talk near you, please drop us a line as we are keen to add new venues!

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Colombia Teaser Video

Here’s a little teaser video from our recent Colombia expedition. If this whets your appetite, we’ll be showing more HD video along with telling tales of our epics and adventures on our lecture tour, so check out the dates and venues. And if there isn’t a talk happening near you, get in touch on info@flowfree.co.uk […]
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Rocks & Sucks in Colombia

It’s been a couple of weeks since I got back from Colombia and with starting my lecture tour*, I’ve had time to reflect on our adventures. Rather than write a long-winded summary of our trip, I thought I’d do something different and present the highs, lows and hilarity in a “rocks and sucks” run-down. What […]
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Jungle adventures in full swing

Myself, Niamh Stack, Dave Hollins and Fran Kohn are two weeks in to our month here in Colombia. We’ve been stunned by how beautiful it is: dramatic moutains covered in thick, lush jungles and huge canyons… a landscape that makes for some very committing sections of river! So far we’ve paddled some amazing white water, including [...]
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Colombia: here we come!

Myself, Fran Kohn, Dave Hollins and Niamh Stack are just about head out for a month of exploring the rivers of Colombia in South America. Jungles, mountains, big volume, low volume, boulder gardens and the odd waterfall too… plus the potential of some multiday action where we’ll sleep in hammocks. We’re dead excited!


Our bags all packed and ready to go!

I’ll be updating the FlowFree blog, our facebook page and my twitter feed (flowfree_lowri) when I can. We’ve set up a blog specifically for the trip where we’ll all be posting up stories and photos from our adventures, so if you want to keep fully up to date bookmark www.kayakcolombia.wordpress.com

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Colombia-bound

2012 is getting off to an exiting start for myself, Fran Kohn, Dave Hollins and Niamh Stack as we are just about to set off for a month of boating in Colombia. Bags packed and ready to go… I’m taking the new Mamba 8.1 on this trip which I’m really excited about because it seems [...]
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Fancy a Dramatic Slideshow?

On February 7th I’ll be talking about a variety of my adventures from around the globe as part of the High Sport Winter Lecture series, based in Shrewsbury. I’ll share tales from Siberia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Uganda, Norway and more… and since I’ll be fresh back from paddling in Colombia I should have some exciting new tales too!

Searching for first descents Money Drop Exploring Georgia

The series is a fantastic initiative to help raise funds for the Youngsters in the Mountains scheme which aims to help youngsters realise their dreams through outdoor adventures. Famous names such as Andy Kickpatrick and Leo Houlding have been involved in the past so I am honoured to have been asked to be a part of it this year.

So if you fancy an evening of tall tales and awesome photos come along! Tickets for the talks, which happen every month between now and March, can be purchased on the High Sport shop.

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