More people, more paddling, more often.
As an adventure sports coach you meet hundreds of groups of people that you get to take on epic adventures, sometimes those groups are super memorable and sometimes it’s the journey. In this case it was both. It’s early August 2013 and Moose and I are about to meet our group, the team of 12…
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1,365 miles. 27 hours. 1 ferry. 2 of the worst full English breakfasts DFDS could muster. 6 driver swaps. Spain was a bloody long way away from Aviemore. We had booked the trip months before, organised an entire training course around the fact that we wanted to go to the Noguera Pallaresa and paddle in…
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We have all been there, had that “Oh F**k” moment. Mine was leading on a river in Norway. We had decided to run the river in teams, three leaders that each had a group to get down the river safely, they were there to help pick up swimmers and kit and as someone to oversee…
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“Chuck us another can” I say to Moose from my sofa. He reaches down and opens the small fridge we’ve adopted as a beer fridge takes out a can of Tennent’s for me, as well as one for himself and chucks it over to me before opening his. He never leaves his own sofa. This…
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In this digital age, in an age where influencers haunt the corridors of social media. In a place where you can never be sure if adventure is fact or staged. Outside all this, outside the social media bubble, a few kayakers and adventure seekers live a life of adventure. They do not shout about it,…
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I vividly remember my first Kayaking experience. I was around 10 – 11 years old and had recently joined a Sea Cadet Unit. The main activities were sailing & rowing, however there was a couple of old (even back then) fibreglass kayaks that you could use while waiting your turn for the other boats. There…
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None of us ever thought that day would bring what it did, the dark murky water of the Tana beneath our boats would give us an experience that would change our lives… I was joined that day by one of the local Kenyan paddlers, Wilson. We had paddled the 7 km section leading back to…
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2019 was a big year for PaddleMore with lots of background work bringing us to finally going live in October, but it’s not the end of the secret projects, so keep watching as we roll into the new year. 2020 is shaping up to be an excellent year for us. You’ll no doubt have read…
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Our very first blog post! We’re really excited to start sharing stories and thoughts from members of the paddling community. Stories are so often cut short, limited to 140 characters nowadays, or briefly discussed at the pub after a long day on the water. We think stories are there to be shared far and wide.…
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