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Title: Hello from bangor
Post by: noble98 on March 10, 2012: Was looking for somewhere to take kids tomorrow and re-discovered this forum. I forgot i had registered last year but never posted anything!

Have 4 young kids and outdoor loving wife so we spend plenty of time in the great outdoors. We love to canoe, especially if it means packing the boats with our camping gear for the weekend. Kids are big enough now for hiking and camping in the mournes and we got a couple of trips in last summer. Our new hobby is recreational tree climbing, we are still novices but it makes a walk in the woods a lot more exciting.

Will attempt to add some photos

Ps. Check out dowsers post of his igloo back in dec 10. The squatters were my son and I!
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Post by: FlapJack on March 10, 2012: Hi noble98
i just joined up my self. I hope to do these things with my daughter but she is only two at the moment.
Gives me plenty of time to get some experience before taking her into the hills. Most of my experience canoeing and hiking is from my teenage years, then i sat behind a desk since then unfortunately ;D
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Post by: noble98 on March 10, 2012: Flapjack
We have been paddling with the kids since they were big enough to fit a bouyancy aid. In fact paddling with kids is easier than walking cos they get to sit there with very little effort just dipping their hands in the water. We used to have to tether their dummy to their coats to stop it falling in the water.

When i get on my pc i will post some photos of the wee guys

Ben
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Post by: LennyJ1 on March 10, 2012: Welcome to the forum.
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Post by: FlapJack on March 10, 2012: Thanks for the tip
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Post by: Wolf_Larson on March 10, 2012: Big welcome to you and family.
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Post by: RedLeader on March 10, 2012: Welcome!
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Post by: Spud on March 10, 2012: Welcome!
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Post by: Matthew on March 10, 2012: Welcome to the forum.

MB
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Post by: Rumblebum on March 10, 2012: Welcome along.
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Post by: Al Fresco on March 10, 2012: Welcome back
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Post by: noble98 on March 10, 2012: Well in the end we did a bit of tree climbing in the clandeboye estate. Had a fire and made hot chocolate. What a beaut day!
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Post by: MG1 on March 11, 2012: Welcome along
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Post by: Samm on March 11, 2012: That looks like great fun. When you said recreational tree climbing I hadn't realised that you had that sort of set up. Does anyone ever try and stop you or do you just set up off the beaten track?
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Post by: Kayakgirl on March 11, 2012: Hello and welcome to the forum.
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Post by: noble98 on March 11, 2012: Samm

We generally climb in areas of clandeboye estate that have public access. We have never had any grief from anyone yet. I am sure if we tried climbing in forestry land we would get sent packing.

We use doubled rope technique a traditional tree surgeon method for climbing. We have spent a bit on the kit but we have had plenty of priceless days this winter. We are heading back to loch lomond this summer to paddle i am looking forward to bringing our kit and climbing on the islands - we wont get any grief there either.
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Post by: Mourneman on March 11, 2012: Welcome to ni-wild
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Post by: Dowser on March 12, 2012: Hi there Noble98

Great to see you here on the Forum. Hope you and the family are all keeping well, but it certainly looks like you are by the way you are swinging through the trees like Tarzan :-)

Ni Wild should be a great source of finding new things for you to do, if there's anything left that you haven't tried yet in the great outdoors lol

Believe it or not Jay was talking about you and Nathan sleeping in the igloo yesterday.

Have a look at my latest project here (http://www.ni-wild.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=2481.msg33299#msg33299). Hopefully see you out on the water soon. We have a couple of water based activities/weekends lined up for the coming months.

Dowser

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