ICO Basic Training Schedule Weekend 2 (Saturday)
Lotus to Salmon Falls
MENTORS: Equipment ______, Food _____, Logistics _____
6:45 Wake up call
7:00 Breakfast – get river ready!
8:00 Instructor Meeting ________________, Sunday ________________
Ø Overview of day Ø Instructor feedback
Ø Challenges/issues Ø Roles (head guide? Extra paddlers?)
Ø Evaluations (week #1) Ø Boat Assignments (including ITs)
8:15 Group meeting
Ø Game
Ø Overview of day
Ø What needs to happen to leave camp
Ø Shuttle drivers meet – No Trainee Drivers
Ø Prepare to run shuttle
8:30 Bring equipment from shed to put-in
9:00 Shuttle Leaves No Trainee Drivers
Trainees:
Ø Handle put-in procedures (instructor give feedback)
Ø Appoint a trainee “boat captain” for each boat (insures tasks completed)
Ø Practice safety talk (instructor gives feedback)
Ø Two students tag-teaming safety talk may reduce anxiety
10:30 Shuttle Returns (Delayed shuttle = throw bag practice)
10:40 Quick Instructor check-in
10:45 Trainees conduct Paddle Talk (Instructor gives feedback)
Ø How to sit in boat
Ø Commands: forward, back paddle, Right Turn, Left Turn,
Ø Practice: Ferrying back and forth
Instructor: Review with each Student their Challenges & Accomplishments:
Ø Go over Weekend #1 skills
Ø What do they understand
Ø What do they need more work on
Ø Revisit weak skills up until lunch
Head down river - Emphasize and Practice
Ø Identify current, tongue, main channel, river hazards
Ø avoiding obstacles (back away)
Ø Identify obstacles (real vs perceived)
Ø upstream / downstream angles
Ø ferrying across current
Ø controlling momentum
Ø using the crew
1:00 Lunch –
1:30 Instructor Check-in (What trainees ready for Class IIIs?)
2:30 Review Fowlers, Satans, Bouncing Rock, Hospital Bar
Ø Emphasize reading water; introduce properly entering waves & holes
Ø Volunteer swimmers for Swimmer’s Rapid?
4:15 Take-out: Trainees run take-out procedure (Instructors mentor)
Ø 1) Tilt Boats, 2) organize gear, 3) roll boats, 4) change clothes
5:00 Kitchen Tribe sets up hand and dish wash
6:00 Dinner – Kitchen Tribe gives kitchen talk
7:00 River History
8:00 Noah Rucker-Triplett, River Ranger
ICO Basic Training Schedule Weekend 2 (Sunday)
Chili Bar to Henningsen
6:45 Wake up call
7:00 Breakfast
8:00 Instructor Meeting
Ø Overview
Ø Challenges
Ø Give boat Assignments
8:15 Group meeting
Ø Overview of day
Ø What needs to happen to leave camp
Ø Shuttle Drivers Meet
Ø Prepare to leave campsite
8:45 Group Meeting–Shuttle Plan Announced (Drop off cars at Henningsen)
9:30 Arrive at Chili Bar–unload gear
9:40 Send all cars back to Lotus and bring back drivers
Students prepare rafts & practice Safety Talk
10:40 Students practice skills–in Chili Bar eddy
Ø How to sit in boat: paddlers
Ø Commands: forward, back paddle, etc.
Ø Sweep Strokes: forward and reverse
Ø Ferrying–setting and holding position
Ø Controlling boat speed
11:00 Instructors guide & model Meatgrinder & Race Horse Bend
Ø Head down river-Identify; current, tongue, main channel, river hazards
Ø Identify and demo avoiding an obstacles
Ø Introduce eddys (if appropriate)
11:30 Race Horse Bend Eddy–Students take over
12:30 Lunch-at 2nd Threat
2:00 Troublemaker: Intro to scouting rapids – bring throw bags
2:15 Instructors guide and model Troublemaker
4:00 Arrive Henningsen: Students handle take-out procedures (instructors monitor)
Ø Tilt Boats
Ø Organize gear
Ø Roll boats
Ø Change clothes
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4:00 Student and Instructor Evaluations Begin
5:00 Circle up!
5:30 Unload gear at Camp Lotus