The NRPC blog has been quite for a while now.  I suppose exams have been upon us and assignments have had to be done so there has been little chance to update the blog as all our freetime has been taken up with paddling and this aforementioned work.

However, as another academic year comes to an end people move on to bigger and better things and people move in to fill the shoes of those that have moved on.  I suppose I'm ultimately trying to say that a set of new students, with grand ambitions for the paddling club, have now moved into office in the hope of pushing the club onto greater things and keeping a record of it all on here.

Over the summer months we're hoping to get a few posts up about what this new committee have already achieved and what they are hoping to achieve and you'll be able to follow us throughout the next academic year and actually see if us student types can live upto what we say we can do.

Looking upstream on the Ubaye.

The new chairman and secretary have just got back from an Alps trip where plenty of plans for the future have been talked about.  On this particular trip they were accompanied by lecturers.  The grand plan for next year is that as a student organisation they can organise and run such a trip.

Happy paddling.

Removing the tree from the second drop on the Caldew, the river was too low to paddle, but was great for getting the tree.

Here's the drop now:

Just waiting for the river level to rise and then we will take some pictures of all the drops and get a video for the site and UKRGB.

See you on the river.  I'm paddling the Leven tommorow; think it is the only thing that will be up!!!

Jay and the NRPC

The first semester saw everyone get a big shock of how busy we were going to be for the next year and therefore we have posted less on the site - sorry.

But heres a round up of whats been going on.

A trip to Tees Barrage

Photo courtesy of Beki Tatham.

And some creeking

Photo courtesy of Beki Tatham.

I'll see you at the Caldew in January,

Jay

Guide: River Caldew

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Hey,

First blog entry and I suppose I should introduce the club.  We are the Newton Rigg Paddling Club, whose members study at the University of Cumbria's Newton Rigg campus.  Most of the members are studying for degrees that have an emphasis on outdoor education.  Many of us have coaching qualifications and nearly all the members have lots of free time to go paddling.

We are due to have a whole load of freshers within the next few weeks.  For the next year we have taster days, BUCS competitions and a trip to Scotland.  We also hope to get to far away places such as Uganda and Morocco and then we've got the local rivers of the Lake District to play on.

We also frequent events like the NSR and all of us love a party and can't get enough of paddling.  Contact us if you want to go paddling or if your going to any events and would like someone you know to be there.

I'll keep posting to keep everyone interested!!!

Jay

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Basically we are the University of Cumbria's Newton Rigg campus Paddling Club. Most of us are on an Outdoor Degree at the Uni and some of us are coaches, but we all are obsessive paddlers. A couple of our members featured at last year's Shap Film Fextival and here it is:

And here's the sequel.

We have a load of events coming up for the Freshers as well as our own personal paddling trips.  We'll keep the posts coming.

Jay