Irish Whitewater Forum

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I'll leave it up to you to spot the "Pro's"

Know a local... ;) That way you can access limitless supplies of turf from the local's own plot as well as borrowing items such as toasters, TV's etc. Better if the local isn't home at New Years. Buy a Thermarest and a good sleeping bag Glenbeigh can get very cold (One year, a wet t-shirt froze to ...

Fair Point Lorcanon...

However the point I was trying to get across is that these sorts of events are now run by clubs and therefore, presumably sanctioned by the ICU, albeit indirectly.

Can of Worms in a Can of Worms ??? ;) Is running gentle weirs in an open canoe without a helmet any safer of more dangerous than sliding down a ramp and flying through the air to land on flat water... or indeed racing side by side down narrow grade 4 sections of whitewater ?? All three would have be...

Some of the pics on the Upper Liffey page are of the tanks Lucan...