Busy Times: Catching Up!

Its often the case that its difficult to keep up with posting at this time of year, what we do outside takes over & I can say with sincerity "that's a good thing!"

Firstly, we launched our new website less than a fortnight ago, within the first week it took well over 5,000 hits - so a big thank you to everybody who took the time to view the site & support our work in this way!! If you haven't had a look yet feel free to browse at www.canoesmountainscaves.co.uk

The summer has been amazing, we were thinking back recently to a week away in Snowdonia immediately after Easter - the sun shone every day. Our recollection is that following this week the late April & early May weather was quite dry if a little cool. However, late May saw two camping trips both blessed with fine sunny weather & from then on the sun doesn't seem to have stopped shining! We have been working with many old friends through the summer which is always a great pleasure, its also been extremely encouraging to meet and work with many new groups & individuals - one of the great joys of the outdoors!

Rather than give a full account of all the gorge walking; open canoeing; mine exploration; vertical caving; more gorge walking..... here are a few pictures just to give a flavour of recent times:

Open Canoeing on Derwent Water

Vertical Caving in West Kingsdale

Gorge Walking in Stoneycroft Ghyll