So this is it! We are off to the Source for an adventure of a lifetime!

Well the time has come for us to head up to the Source of the river Severn and start our adventure! 200 miles in 9 days and hopefully we might even get some sun!!

We have been training hard all winter even in the coldest of weather and have spent many hours planning our itinerary, but we feel we are ready to go and are all really excited to get going.
The wildlife has been outstanding so far and we are hoping to be spoilt as we travel with the flow!

A huge thanks to Red Paddle, Palm and Berghaus for your support so far!

Thanks to everyone who has supported us so far and will do on our journey! You can follow our progress on Facebook by Viewranger. https://www.facebook.com/Source2Sea2013

Meet Tristan Bawn, Source2sea team member

Hello my name is Tristan Bawn, I’m 34 and live in Bristol with my wife and two kids...my biggest fans! I’m over the moon to be a part of the Source2Sea team and can’t wait to get going.

I spend as much time as I can in the outdoors, especially surfing the Severn Bore, walking in the mountains, camping with the family and of course Stand Up paddleboarding! I have climbed to just under 7,000 metres, surfed lovely breaks abroad, dived clear waters and explored jungles, but I also enjoy a gentle walk through my local woods.

I have tried many different activities, including bathtubbing and bog snorkelling, but I guess I’m happy just being outdoors enjoying life!

Wildlife is a huge part of why I go outdoors in the first place, getting a picture completes the day! I’m really looking forward to seeing the vast array of wildlife the Severn supports, we have already been spoilt by Keith the seal!

The Source2Sea trip came about from years of general chit chat about traveling the length, and then one day we decided to stop talking and get doing! So here we are on the verge of leaving and the excitement is killing me. What will keep me going? Knowing my family and friends will be waiting for us in Sharpness!

You can follow our progress on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Source2Sea2013

Meet Rob Yates Source2Sea team member

I'm excited to be given the chance to attempt this challenge and achieve this feat with a great team. I have over 25 years' experience of the outdoor world with numerous activities including hill climbing, mountaineering, kayaking, caving, ice-climbing and even bath-tubing, not that I stayed in the bath for very long !! I just hope it's cold during April as I seem to like getting into cold frozen tents with most of these activities. Paddleboarding is a new experience for me so my training will be tougher than the rest but that's the thing I like the most, a challenge!!

Meet George Bush, the fifth member of our team and the support driver!

Hi!
I'm George Bush, the only 'lady' of Team Source2Sea and I am the Support Driver, I have the very important job of cooking, cleaning, pitching tents, washing clothes, scrubbing backs, rubbing on sun cream, and chauffeuring....ok maybe not all of those things but definitely chauffeuring and providing food! I will be following the guys along their journey, making sure they are fed and watered, and to 'support' I will be taking the road as close to the river as I can get (I will be driving a 4 x 4 so looking forward to a lot of off roading) They think their journey will be tough....pfft, I'll be doing 100 miles further ;-) Being a support driver will be rather challenging for me, I have no directional sense, if asked to go left, I go right and vice versa...but, I have a satnav, so all will be fine!

I was born in Yorkshire, but very shortly after we moved to a very small Worcestershire village, where I lived for 20 years, I spent most of my time walking, cycling, exploring etc. But wildlife is and always has been my biggest passion, I would spend hours searching for things from tiny caterpillars to Red Deer. Whilst growing up my sister and I reared all sorts of things from day old Jackdaw chicks (I still do that now) to raising lambs in the garden that had been orphaned by the local farm. I have kept almost every animal thinkable and enjoyed every minute of it. I currently have two hedgehogs hibernating in my spare room, they will be fattened up and released when the weather has warmed up. I have a dog called Dave, a Cockatiel called Chaz, a tortoise called Flash and Turtle called Hector and my favourite animals are sheep!! I love the rain (we could do with a bit more for the river levels) and being outdoors, so I can not wait for this adventure to start!