This week was spent on the Soca river in Slovenia. With six clients and two coaches, myself and Gavin spent the five days guiding and coaching in the fabulous valley, the Soca offers some outstanding sections of river for developing confidence and brushing up on skills and making them more modern and dynamic. In luxury accommodation, based in Zaga, great food and wonderful weather, well for the first three days, what a perfect recipe for an outstanding trip.Over the first three days we paddled all the class 2 and 3 sections of the river and enjoyed approximatley 50 cumecs each day, the rain then made its way to us from Italy and provided us with flood paddling conditions of 100+ cumecs.
A big thank you to all clients, making this trip enjoyable and fun.
Already from requests, we have dates planned for next year, 1st week in June 2011.
As a client on this excellent week, I can only recommend ICG for a WW kayaking coaching/guiding holiday. The product is excellent as the coaching is superb, logistics hassle free, accomodation/food terrific and all at a great price which meant all I had to was boat and socialise. The team provided relaxed, professional and well thought out coaching in a relaxed and safe environment which brought out the best in the group. The Soca is a fantastic location with short shuttles in the valley, all the access points had a toilet and good parking and the cost of living is cheap. Pint of Lager 1.50 euros and a huge pizza 6 euros, supermarket stuff was cheaper than home, not that we needed food as Jo supplied excllent fare all week.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite section was between Srpenica 1 and 2, which was an eddy fest and great playground for honing skills or just a lovely cruisey section.
Only small negative was the two paddle shops (Prijon and Alpin Action) were expensive in comparison to home and so make sure you have all your kit with you.
I would like to thank Lee and Gavin Lewis for making the week so pleasurable,enjoyable and structured to our needs. A big thank you to Jo for her role as domestic goddess and she had the strength to paddle every day as well.
Thanks ICG and roll on the next trip.