Intro to whitewater kayaking

Leaders
Adam Rieth (Whitewater Leader), Bo Dwyer (Whitewater Leader)
Program
Boating
Type
Kayaking
Trip date
Saturday, May 26th, 2018
Difficulty rating
1
Prerequisites
Swimming ability

Hi everyone,

Do you want to learn to whitewater kayak? Now's your chance! Join some MITOC paddle leaders on the Pemigewasset river in New Hampshire and learn the basics of river reading and river running.

This is an introductory trip and no experience is necessary. It is important that you are comfortable in the water and know how to swim, however. I promise you will get wet :)

We will have a planning meeting on Thursday night at 8pm in the MITOC boathouse (behind the MIT museum) to select gear and prepare everything. On Friday at 6pm we will take a trip to Spy pond in Arlington to learn basic boating skills for the whitewater part of the trip. We will reconvene at the boathouse at 7am on Saturday to drive to a class II river in New Hampshire and we will return in evening. Please only sign up if you can commit to the gear selection meeting on Thursday and the pond session on Friday -- these should be considered mandatory parts of this trip!

This will be a lottery drawing for spots on the trip. If you don't make it, don't despair! We are planing on having lots of trips this summer.

Let me know if you have a car with roof racks. We need at least one more car to make this all work.

Email me if you have any questions (bodwyer651@gmail.com)

See you on the river, Bo and Adam


Signup

Algorithm
first-come, first-serve
Maximum participants
8
Signups opened at
May 11, 2018, 11:58 a.m.
Signups closed at
May 18, 2018, noon
Notes
  1. Have you ever kayaked before?
  2. Can you make both the gear selection on Thursday and the pond session on Friday?
  3. Do you have a car with roof racks for transporting boats?
Signups for this trip are closed.