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Phil looking happy in a 24hr side surf marathon...
Name: Phil Carrivick (AKA Phil 'centre line it' Carrivick!)
Age: 20
University: Durham University
Subject: Engineering
Year of Study: 2nd year undergraduate.
Paddling Experience...?
Eight years have included many highlights all within Europe. All holiday trips so i'll have to learn to live without comforts this time!
From Norway in the North, to the French Alps in the South, from Slovenia in the East to the Bitches in the West - I've enjoyed every
minute of it. I'm also a coach so roll up for your 1-4*/CST assessments (shameless plug!) I especially like the adventerous runs -
walk-ins and smudged guidebook pages from downpours just add to a good day boating.
So, when was your last swim?
Hmmm... all because of complacency. - a boaters' archilles heel! Letterbox, middle etive, Easter 2004. Dropped of sloping ledge
too earlly, re-circed in spud then out of spud. Lost a shoe - nothing like paying for a mistake!
What's your favourite river?
Hard one to pin down. Fairy Glen springs to mind for being an awesome creek albeit it short - a memory mixed from expectation
and reality when I got to paddle it just before christmas. It's remoteness, character and reputation are just great. But
then their's also the Soca for it's water quality and scenery, the Otra in Norway on 120 cumecs, for its play waves and
falls or even the Middle Guil, and the gorges above, and similar pieces in Austria like the Lower Otze (my first alpine hard run!)
Who said there can't be many favourites!
What was your first boat?
Inazone 230 - saved up after many paper rounds. But had paddled a Dagger RPM regularly from a mate before I could afford my
own. Still good boats to this day, I never knew proper 'old skool', let alone fibreglass! Now paddling a Bliss Stick Flip
Stick, Pyranha H3 245 and Eskimo Topo.
So you're leading this expedition?
Yup. I find it funny when I think of what the ideal expedition leader should be - I could be one of those Neally cartoons with all sorts hanging off my BA,
or grow a beard and religiously paddle at the front, or be the probe leader- "hang on guys i'll see what's over the lip". We'll all be doing some of
the above sometimes which is just proof that we're still a bunch of guys going boating. Can't wait..bring on the Tien Shan rivers...