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Saturday 15 November Intro to WW paddling, from the club CANCELLED

JaneEvansJaneEvans
edited November 2025 in Club Activity: Club Trips and Tours

This is an afternoon session, for paddlers with some paddling experience who want to learn some basic white water paddling skills. Meet 2pm at the club, where we will choose short kayaks, helmets etc. Then paddle down the canal to blue bridge, portage across to the bottom of the flood defences, then paddle to Salmon pool weir where we will use the outflow from the broken weir to practise white water skills. After an hour or so retrace the route, with the aim of being back at the club around 5pm.

Tony will be part of the group. He has lots of experience in slalom paddling and will be showing us how to make the most of the moving water.

If the paddling is a success we will work out how we can make progress with this group. We are looking at pool sessions for rolling practice, and how we can organise trips on local rivers. This may need to be on a paid basis if no suitable volunteers are available.

Please bring lights if you have them as it will be close to sunset when we finish.

It will be high water around 3pm so there should be enough water to paddle.

UPDATE Wednesday: there has been a lot of rain which has resulted in high water levels, so this trip may need to be cancelled. There is strong flow below the weir which will make it difficult to paddle up to the weir. Also the river is now wider so the edges of the river are amongst the trees which is hazardous, and the water is very brown and therefore there is a higher risk of contamination. Watch the forum to see the final decision later in the week.

UPDATE2: cancelled as water levels are too high.

Adults only. Max 6 people. There is only one channel so the group is limited to 6. If you cannot come please update the thread.

Booked
Jane
Grant
Emma
James
Tony
Andy
Nigel (safety boater)

Waiting list
Maggie
Shelley
Laura

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