* White water rafting is one of the sports featured in FLO.
THE UK’s first outdoor multi-sport festival gets under way in Llangollen later this month.
Chester-based registered charity River Legacy, which
provides funding, facilities and support for paddle sports in England and
Wales, will host the event called FLO – Festival Llangollen Outdoor Sports – in
the town from November 15-17.
Centred on Llangollen International Pavilion, the event aims
to bring together what River Legacy describes as “the highest concentration of
talented, outdoor specialists from across North Wales, providing a range of
activities in order to provide a fun and exciting weekend festival”.
The charity says it will feature activities from running to
climbing, swimming to boating, zip-wiring to cooking and have “something for
everyone”.
According to the FLO website – www.flo-llangollen.com – on the Friday
afternoon, from 2-4.30pm, the pavilion and its programme of activities will
only be open to local schoolchildren.
On the Saturday, the
pavilion will become the hub of the event and will host a range of ‘come and
try’ activities, including kayaking, climbing, biking on a pump track, segways,
abseiling from the balconies, paintballing, bushcraft skills and mountain yoga.The nearby River Dee will be the setting for an extreme slalom event, starting at noon.
The Sunday will see a programme of lectures on a range of outdoor themes from 4pm.
These will include Rob Moffat on his kayaking expedition to Borneo and Lawrence Crossman Emms on mountain biking photography.
A charity raft race will see competition starting at 10am, and an hour later will be the start of a fell race.
Visitors to FLO are expected to use local hotels and a campsite run by River Legacy will be open from 4-9pm on Friday for registration.
Entry to the event is £5 for which you can try a wide range of activities.
Organisers say their target is to bring 1,000 people into the town over the weekend and for FLO to become an annual event.
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