This year, we’re co-sponsoring the fourth annual Gales Storm Gathering, a rough-water symposium designed for intermediate and advanced paddlers. It’s a terrific event, featuring top midwest coaches and a guest coach from afar (this year, Jeff Allen from Sea Kayaking Cornwall) — an opportunity to take all the skills and confidence you’ve worked on all season and put them to use in more challenging water.
Far too many women are intimidated by this prospect. So this year we’re offering something new: Rough & Ready, a pre-Gales track at the annual Ladies of the Lake symposium August 15-17. Both events will be in Munising, MI this year.
If your paddling aspirations include paddling in rough water, surfing waves, rock gardening and pushing your paddling skills to the next level, Rough and Ready will help you get there. It’s designed to increase your confidence and skills in bumpy conditions. Like all LOL courses, we’ll fine-tune the course based on where you are and where you want to go, but we promise to take you to the next level.
The goal of Rough and Ready is to prepare you, physically and psychologically, to attend The Gales Oct 3-5. As an added encouragement, ladies who participate in Rough and Ready will get a $75 discount on their Gales registration, space permitting.
This track is limited to eight participants, so get your LOL registrations in soon and let us know if you plan to be in this track. Those who sign up will get additional information prior to LOL.
