It's that time of year again when we ask for volunteers to help us provide the rescue cover for the students at this year's BUCS white water race at the Washburn. We need people to help provide safety cover on the weekend of 27-28 November 2010.

White water safety and rescue team springs into action

What's in it for you
Tea/Coffees
Food throughout the daytime
Party tickets
Parking tickets
Lots of white water rescue practice!

All are welcome, you don't need any formal qualifications, and you can do any job from dry throwlining from the bank, to chaseboating, to live-baiting. Bring your friends!

If this sounds good to you, get in touch!

A selection of photos from the past few months…

Rick Chant consults the map high in the Lakeland fells.

The traverse around Catsycam before a gruelling ascent of Y Gully.

Hiking up for one last run as the sun sets over the Cairngorm range

A quick rest before the descent from the top of Glas Maol, Glenshee

This week Will is leading a group from Manchester Uni during their Geography fieldwork in the Anti Atlas.

snow on Adge Mountain above Imlil

Fieldwork near Tidli, Morocco

View from the Kasbah near Imlil

We have several dates in the diary for Foundation Safety and Rescue training courses in the next month:

Friday 12 March
Mon 29 March
Friday 2 Apr
Friday 9 Apr

All the info's at http://www.rockmonkey.co.uk/bcu_fsr_course.php

BCU Foundation Safety and Rescue Training Course

Walking group on Kinder Scout

Walkers descending Kinder Scout

 Once a suitable descent was selected, a matter of minutes runnning through the knee deep powder saw us back en route to the valley!

Doug winter walking in the Peak

February in the Peak - Kinder under snow

Live baiter providing white water safety and rescue cover

Big shout out to the team who helped provide Whitewater Safety and Rescue cover at the British Universities' Canoe Slalom race at Nottingham last weekend. Rockmonkey staff couldn't have done it without your help!

Mic Gardner's photos are here:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=188215&id=679881457

We have a BCU (new style) 3* course running in white water kayaks on 10-11 April 2010 in Manchester. It's a combined training and assessment, so if you're an existing 2* paddler, this will just the course for you!

white water kayak

All the info's at http://www.rockmonkey.co.uk/bcu_star_awards_courses.php

The cost will be just £155 for the two days training.

If you want any more info, get in touch on will@rockmonkey.co.uk

Last weekend, the Rockmonkey team headed to Durham city to deliver an outdoor first aid course for the University canoe club.  Here are some snaps from the course:

We are able to provide outdoor first aid training to clubs, companies and other organisations around the country.  Prices from £60pp – please get in touch via the main Rockmonkey website.

Just back from a week kayaking amongst the snow in the area around Fort William.

Would you be interested in volunteering to help provide safety cover for this event? This is a great chance to practice your white water safety and rescue skills, so if you can help out throwlining for a few hours or would like to spend two full days live-baiting, we'd love to hear from you.

Providing White water safety and rescue cover for the BUCS slalom event

You can expect free tea, and if you can help for a whole day or more there's also free camping and party tickets. As always, you can take time out to compete yourself, so there's no reason you can't get stuck in!

The dates of the event are 13-14 February 2010, and there's loads of information about the event itself at http://www.bucsslalom.org.uk/