March Madness

The weather this month has been either bitterly cold and dry or slightly milder with heavy doses of rain. This meant that most of my climbing was done on my home wall, just keeping the training going until I can get outdoors on some real rock again. 
What the random and mixed weather did facilitate was a bit of kayaking in the form of both river and sea paddling. Finally after a month of having my new kayak I was able to get it wet and put some scratches on it, with a handful of quality runs on the superb Upper Dart. I had about three trips in lovely medium-plus levels, plus a couple of adrenaline-fuelled runs in quite big water which was a real buzz, one of which was solo. :O This all helped me to tune into the new ZET Raptor really well, and my overall impression is extremely good - it handles like a dream and I'm absolutely loving it! :) I'm in the blue boat in the video. ;)
Upper Dart ZET Raptor paddling big flows
I did also dust the cobwebs off my Tiderace Xcite and get out for a couple of fantastic sea paddles too. The first was an evening trip around Berry Head to Mansands and back in lovelyl warm and sunny conditions. Then a few days later Elisabeth and myself took a trip to the beautiful Bantham bay for a wonderful afternoon of surfing, rockhopping and coastal paddling in glorious sunny conditions. What a magic day we had! :)
Not sure what April has in store for us, but hopefully weather conditions will allow us to get out paddling and/or climbing in some form or other!?!