Canoe Trail Online Adventure Talk and Expedition Planning Workshop

Canoe Trail Online Adventure Talk and Expedition Planning Workshop Wednesday 26th 7pm

Expedition and trip planning this Wednesday with my free intro workshop and adventure talk from the authors of Great British Paddling Adventures covering over 50 canoe / kayak and SUP routes and over 100 paddling days . To date we have covered over 15’000 miles of human powered expeditions so there should something for everyone with top tips , handy hints and more . Richard Matheson Harpham is an advanced canoe leader , sea kayak leader, moderate water endorsed coach and provider of guide modules , PSI, Open water SUP , touring leader etc . Hope that you can join us

Here is the link to the zoom

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87889983578?pwd=5wRoSCnF3Sm7RfNNus8tggWSPJLPty.1

Rich is a wilderness guide, Paddle UK Provider, white water coach, advanced canoe leader and expedition leader with over 15,000 miles of human powered adventures from minus 50 in the Yukon Winter to big sea kayak crossings and journeys and thousands of miles of wilderness canoeing.  Rich is a director of watersports and adventure company www.canoetrail.co.uk with his wife Ashley and they also run award winning wellbeing and life skills social enterprise www.inspiredlife.org which was a London 2012 Inspire Mark Project. Rich and Ash recently wrote Great British Paddling Adventures with over 50 paddling routes for canoe, kayak and SUP.

Join this experiential and interactive 45 min workshop on Expedition Planning with an Expedition 101 of everything you ever wanted to ask?!

Session Content – a blend of topics from Trip Planning and Organisation (Expedition Planning) and Campcraft and Expedition Skills

Calum on our River Tay Descent 

This session is a taster for the wider qualification preparing people for more time off grid and enjoying our wilder spaces through canoe, kayak, SUP, bike or on skis .  We will be exploring different topics with practical exercises, hints, tips and discussions as a group.  

You can see more of the wilderness guide modules using the link below which covers the 5 modules which are:  1) Camp Craft and Expedition Skills 2) Environmental and Sustainability 3) Leadership 4) Customer Experience (hosting) Trip Planning and Organisation

https://www.canoetrail.co.uk/activities/lessons-courses/british-canoeing-paddle-uk-guide-modules

This workshop will include resources, session plans and resources to help participants plan adventures and expeditions 

About Rich 

Richard Harpham FRGS and his wife Ash Kenlock run Canoe Trail www.canoetrail.co.uk, a watersports and adventure business which was voted one of the ‘Top 52 Things To Do in the World’ by Lonely Planet and Top 3 UK destinations by Red Bull Magazine and has featured in the Times, Telegraph and Huffington Post. Qualified coach, Paddle UK Provider, Inspirational Speaker authors  and expedition guides they write for many magazines, including Bushcraft & Survival Skills Magazine(Rich was the former editor of the Bushcraft and Survival Skills Magazine), Paddler, Huffington Post and National Geographic Kids and featured on BBC1. Follow them @canoetrails 

As renown adventurers Ash and Rich have covered  15,000 miles of wilderness expeditions  by ski, bike, kayak, canoe and SUP. www.richadventure.com  including canoeing the Yukon, Algonquin Rivers and Lakes, Temagami, sea kayaking 1000 miles from Vancouver to Alaska and even mapping the North Seal River in Northern Canada. Together they paddled over 100 different UK locations by canoe, kayak and SUP and have channelled their passion into the book Great British Paddling Adventures.  They  founded  a social enterprise and London 2012 Inspire Mark Project Inspired Life pioneering well-being resources. www.inspiredlife.org