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5 days ago
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Tweed Trip

Very enjoyable trip yesterday on a sunny River Tweed. The trip was preceded by a pleasant walk along the river bank from Peebles swimming...

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Jul 19
1 min

Stanley Trip

First club trip after lockdown! I had a really fun day supporting paddlers on their return to the river after the enforced break. After a...

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Feb 23
1 min

Scaur Trip

We had a great club intermediate trip to the Scar water yesterday. Thank you Graham for leading and everyone who made it an amazing day o...

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Feb 10
1 min

Teith Trip

Cracking Improver paddle down the Teith today with Marcin and Paul at ~1.1m (Callander). Charles was leading, and doing a good job. We ev...

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Dec 16, 2019
1 min

Nith Trip

As there were no beginners for the trip yesterday it was changed to an improvers trip. We had a great paddle on the Nith led by Charles f...

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Nov 24, 2019
1 min

A Year Of Paddling With EKC

Slides from the AGM about all the different trips that have taken place throughout the past year: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/...

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Sep 30, 2019
1 min

Nith Trip

Very enjoyable Improvers trip on Sunday! We paddled the Nith from Mennock to just above the gorge. The higher section was new to us all a...

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May 6, 2019
1 min

Grandtully Trip

Another amazing time at the kayak club. Loved every minute of it... even swimming in the rapids was a fun experience and something to add...

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Apr 8, 2019
1 min

Tummel Trip

Had such an amazing day with the guys from the kayak club. They're all so friendly and very welcoming and although it has only been a sho...

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Dec 8, 2018
1 min

A Year Of Paddling With EKC

Slides from the AGM about all the different trips that have taken place throughout the past year: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1il9SAF...

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Dec 8, 2018
1 min

A Summer In France

Slides from the AGM about the peer trip to France in July 2018: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bcDmFUlvCpe74O2jcQWuq7kMGbcqJinK/view?ts...

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Oct 7, 2018
1 min

Beginners Trip

5 of us, including 2 on their first river trip with EKC, had an enjoyable paddle on the Tay from Aberfeldy, extended down to Grandtully r...

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Sep 16, 2018
1 min

Teith Trip

Great paddle today with select group of Derek, Kevin, Magda and me. We did the end of the Leny from the Lade Inn though the technical "ev...

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Jul 19, 2018
9 min

French Alps 2018

Day 1: This is a picture of me and Mamba Gascoigne doing... well, bugger all really, but how gorgeous is it?! First day, and we did the l...

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May 9, 2018
3 min

Improvers' Teith Trip Sunday 15th April 2018

Sunday began sunny in Edinburgh and was still sunny when we arrived in Callander, so I made the possibly critical error of deciding to do...

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Apr 16, 2018
4 min

North Esk River Race

On Saturday I did a practice run on the North Esk before the race on Sunday with Jonathan and his friend Poppy from Forth Canoe Club. The...

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Apr 8, 2018
2 min

Teith Trip

One of the things that I love about rivers is that they always deliver. I can’t always be sure what they will deliver, but there is alway...

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Apr 8, 2018
1 min

Teith Trip

The Teith was a busy river on Sunday with not only EKC at the get-in, but groups from Cumbernauld, Stirling and Clackmannan, and a crowd ...

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Jan 14, 2018
1 min

North Esk Trip

We thought we were going to the Lothian North Esk yesterday, turns out it was the other one! It was a really good day, despite making a m...

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Dec 7, 2017
4 min

Glenfeshie Weekender

Packrafting is a fairly new paddle sport, designed to allow you to carry your inflatable kayak into remote areas in a rucksack, so that y...

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