: However you like to think of the levels, the point is that there
: are 3 levels instead of 1 to describe 90% of the trips that
: people do. I would bet that 90% of ConnYak paddlers would
: describe their skills as intermediate.

Maybe Intermediate at the lower end!

I always thought there should be a Beginner, Novice, Intermediate and then Advanced level. Very easy to group the two first ones together into one, but that jumble in the middle is where it can get confusing. I don't consider myself a beginner, yet don't know if I am up to intermediate either... But really, it doesn't matter much to me, otherwise I would have done that BCU thing to find my BCU-niche. I just want to paddle and not die doing it.