Journeys and Expeditions

Journeying Jinaka Canoe Guides organise journeys and expeditions in the UK and Europe for people of varying ages and abilities. Whether its a journey or an expedtion, we make every effort to keep that sense of adventure and discovery. Jinaka Canoe Guides have in-depth experience of journeying in canoes and can offer a varied and interesting range of journeys from a 1 day adventure to multi-day journeys or expeditions.

Lake Jouneys in Sweden/Norway, English Lake District Weekends, River Descents on the Severn and Wye.

If you join one of our trips, you will find out the answers to many of the questions listed below and, as always, Comfort is at the top of our list.

Route Planning	Priorities- How far do you want to travel? Is distance more important than what you see?
Logistics	Getting to your start and end points. How many people/canoes?
Equipment	Hire or take? What's personal and what can you share safely?
Paddling Skills	Level of ability? Can you assist people with little ability safely, or teach them? Are you tolerant of those with different skills?
Navigation	Are maps/route cards published? Does someone have local knowledge, and can you trust them?
Food	Where will you buy it? How much? Will everyone enjoy eating it? Will you support the local economy?
Rescue	Do you have a contingency plan and emergency contact information?
First Aid	What sort of first aid skills do you think you might need? Is your first aid kit appropriate, too big or small?
Camp Craft	What will you do if you have lost your pegs? Do you need to take a tent?
Cooking	Try your hand at making 3 course meals with both vegetarian and carnivore options on a wood fire.
Hygiene	See how easy it is to avoid the consequences of bad hygiene.
Boat packing	How to pack your equipment and food in your canoe safely?
Impovised sailing	Why paddle when you can put your feet up and sail?
Judging the Weather	Stay or go? Patience and making the best use of the weather.
Making Fire	Discover ways to create fire.
Food for Free	See what you can find to eat.

If you'd enjoy finding out the answers to some of these questions, register with us for a journey.

Expeditions Jinaka Canoe Guides are particularly interested in providing and supporting groups that want to experience the adventure of an expedition and can organise expeditions and provide support at various levels for recognised organisations. Exactly what makes an expedition is diffictult to say and, historically, it has been the first crossing of a lake or descent of a river, but those are now very rare and hard to find. More realistically, it can simply be a journey into the unknown and dealing with what you discover personally. Whatever it may be, it needs to be exciting, and that means different things to different people. If you are interested in an expedition, please register.

For example this year, Jinaka Canoe Guides are providing support to a school for their 10 day canoeing/bushcraft/survival expedition in Sweden.

Jinaka Canoe Guides are planning trips on various European rivers such as the Dordoyne, Mosel, Loire, Rhine and Danubeall of which offer reasonably long journeys with lots to see and explore. If you are interested in an expedition, please register.

To make an enquiry or to book, please send us a message and we will reply to you.
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