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Plas y Brenin Video Gallery
This is a new area on our site, but it's one we hope will grow into a useful and interesting resource. Take a look through some of the video clips below and see what you think. If you have a clip from your time on a course or holiday with Plas y Brenin, why not e-mail it hrough to us at news@pyb.co.uk and we'll post it up on this page.

Outdoor Sports Videos Jonathan Conville Memorial Trust Alpine Mountaineering
A compilation of clips from our 2005 Conville Trust courses.
11MB

Outdoor Sports Videos Ice Breakers
A short clip of our fast track team's epic open canoe voyage accross LLyn Mymbyr during January's deep freeze.
1.5MB

Outdoor Sports Videos Steep Creeking Feb 07
Students on a Steep Creekin' course during February 2007
8MB

Outdoor Sports Videos Ski Touring
Ski Touring in Austria with Plas y Brenin Ski Guides (late 2006)
8MB

Outdoor Sports Videos Intermediate Open Canoe Course 2006
A collection of clips taken by staff on one of our intermediate open canoe courses in 2006
13.4 MB

Outdoor Sports Videos Ski Touring 2006
A great video diary of a 2006 ski touring course which was generously sent in by Keith Hampson one of our clients on the holiday.
3.6 MB

Outdoor Sports Videos The Steep and the Deep
A nicely edited collection of clips from this January's Steep Creekin courses.
8.4 MB

Outdoor Sports Videos Temagami Canoe Expedition 2005
A great video account of the 2005 Canoe Expedition to Temagami, put together and sent in by one of the students on the expedition.
14.3 MB

Outdoor Sports Videos Alpine White Water 2006
The best of the video clips from our 2006 Alpine White Water Programme this year.
29.5MB

Outdoor Sports Videos Coaches Day Off
A bunch of our kayak coaches had the day off recently and 'zut alors' there was water everywhere. See what they got up to on the Mawddach in this neat clip.
7.2MB

Outdoor Sports Videos Steep Creekin
A clip from our Steep Creekin course showing the standard of paddling you should expect.
1 MB

Outdoor Sports Videos Introduction to White Water kayaking (2)
Another clip from our Introduction to White Water Kayaking course showing the standard of paddling you should expect.
1.2 MB

Outdoor Sports Videos Introduction to White Water kayaking
A clip from our Introduction to White Water Kayaking course showing the standard of paddling you should expect.
2 MB

Outdoor Sports Videos Introduction to Canoeing (2)
Another clip from our Introduction to Canoeing course showing the standard of paddling you should expect.
1.9 MB

Outdoor Sports Videos Introduction to Canoeing
Clip from our Introduction to Canoeing course showing the standard of paddling you should expect.
3.7 MB

Outdoor Sports Videos Intermediate White Water Kayaking
Clip from our Intermediate White Water Kayaking course showing the standard of paddling you should expect.
3.4 MB

Outdoor Sports Videos Intermediate Canoe Coach
Clip from our Intermediate Canoe Coach course showing the standard of paddling you should expect.
1.9 MB

Outdoor Sports Videos Discover White Water
Clip from our Discover White Water course showing the standard of paddling you should expect.
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Outdoor Sports Videos Alpine White Water Classics
Clip from our Alpine White Water Classics course showing the standard of paddling you should expect.
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Outdoor Sports Videos Alpine White Water
Clip from our Alpine White Water Kayak course showing the standard of paddling you should expect.
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Outdoor Sports Videos intermediate white water kayak
Clip from our intermediate white water kayak course.
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