High Waters, High Risk? Recent annual high water and flood events in North America sometimes provide kayakers and canoeists with new paddling opportunities. What dangers may lurk in the murk? We’ve all seen the news images in recent years depicting kayakers or canoeists plying the flooded streets and fields of the latest high-water event, either […]
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Archive for Safety
Preventing the onset of seasickness, or coping with it once it rears its ugly head at you or others in your party, can be a matter of life and death. “A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.” Spike Milligan Any paddler who has suffered the green-gilled demon of seasickness, with the […]
Paddling a semi-frozen lake or river can be an exhilarating way to experience your local waters in a whole new light. “One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.” Alec […]
How to assemble and use your own kit for making field repairs to your kayak and other camping gear “The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be […]
EOS lightweight, compact LED headlamp for camping, hiking, and paddling SPECIFICATIONS Power: 80 Lumens Lamp: Maxbright LED Burn time: 121 hours Batteries: 3 AAA Alkaline or Lithium Weight: 3.7 oz (105 g) 3 AAA Alkaline Batteries Included The Princeton Tec EOS is a lightweight, compact LED headlamp which uses standard AAA alkaline or lithium batteries, […]
The ‘philosophy of safety’ outlined here will set a beginning paddler on a smart and swift course of learning. Author: John Lull Copyright 2001, Wilderness Press, ISBN 0-89997-274-8 Though perhaps burdened with a rather dry title, and being ostensibly aimed at the intermediate paddler, “Sea Kayaking Safety & Rescue” is a book I wish I’d […]
Honing our wilderness first-aid skills “Be great in act, as you have been in thought.” William Shakespeare I took Spanish in eighth grade, because I needed the extra language credit. But I hardly spoke a word of it after that. I took a wilderness-medicine and first-aid course a couple years ago. I learned a lot, […]
Learn how to pack your own emergency survival kit containing the essentials for first-aid, improvised shelter, and more. “We do survive every moment, after all, except the final one.” John Updike There he was, a mile above the French countryside, belching smoke on two cylinders and leaking fuel, with a bullet-riddled aileron, and three Messerschmitts […]
Make your own kayaking first-aid kit, and learn how to use it “Always carry a flask of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.” W.C. Fields A good first-aid kit perhaps falls into the same category as a rain jacket, an automobile spare tire, and an extra roll of TP; […]