Gorgewalking

On Thursday, still working for Trewern OEC, I took the group gorgewalking to the Sychryd river gorge, as shown in the map above. Surprisingly there were not many groups there, good for me, but I think they may have all been paddling on the Wye - a very busy day apparently! So I had the entire gorge almost to myself.

The first small intro jump.

Crawling behind the waterfall to the second jump.

We did 3 jumps in all, but the group were left wanting more - awesome - come back next year.

So this was my last day working at Trewern. I immediately packed my wet stuff and headed off to London, for a quick few hours sleep before my 7am Dover ferry on Friday, for my journey to La grave, to start work on Sat am ....

Canoeing

Today working at Trewern OEC we went canoeing from Glasbury to Hay-on-Wye... A really busy day on the Wye for centres, families and tourists.

22nd, 23rd, 24th, Paddling !

Monmouth to Redbrook

Not what I expected, when thinking about the possible hazards on the river

Tuesday - Hollybush to Hay,

Wednesday - Monmouth to Redbrook

Thursday - Gilwern with Year 6.

A week on canoeing and kayaking !!

Hot On The Wye

Another hot day paddling down the Wye. Not just paddling, lol, swimming, jumping, capsizing...

Everybody Loves Canoeing

Are they both enjoying themselves?

Another day training with the army - on the river. They managed to develop all their hard canoe skills, and develop their army core values, so at the end they were allowed some down time to have fun. Awesome. Yes, it was cold...

Now it's time to prepare for Scotland, move into Fort William, and hit the hills. I'll be doing a mix of work and play. The low level ice may have gone - but it's still winter, and there's still lots to do..

14th, Canoeing On A Cold Wye

Another day for canoeing on the river Wye. The river levels were low. All the precipitation has been solid as snow recently. Eventually when it melts the levels will rise.
The scenery is beautiuful and the canoeing, fun..

Ice, But Canoeing Not Climbing

Frozen over !

Working with the Army (SDW) this week - the first challenge is to get to work (33 miles), across the National Park. The next challenge is to deliver canoeing. Lots of venues are frozen solid (maybe we could drill holes and go fishing), but we managed to break the ice where it was thin at our venues.

The groups this week used all the normal venues - Glasbury to Hay, Aberbran to Brecon, the Prom in Brecon and the Brecon Canal.

Unbelievably beautiful scenery and amazing conditions. Some soldiers capsized their canoes on the rivers, but they were drilled well and managed to tough it out (and in most cases stay warm). They're learning how to tough through difficult conditions, and still be committed to the team.

18th Aug, Sennybridge

My first day of work at the Group development Wing. Today we went canoeing in the Wye from Glasbury to Holybush. The weather was perfect and the Soldiers under training spent as much time swimming at they were canoeing it seeemed.