Safety and Emergencies
Rope Skills
Rope safety - when is it appropriate to use a rope?
Anchors - how to attach to boat, shore.
Rope basics: types, etc.
Knife Usage
Conducting a safe trip
Pre trip meetings
Conditions: equipment, river, weather
Communication
Safety Talk
Paddle Talk
Put-in meeting: roles, boat order, objectively assessing guide/guest readiness, comfort, and ability.
Roles: first aid, rescue, leader, support.
Incident Response
Self, Others, Equipment
Count Heads
Promote a calm response.
Stop Think Observe Plan
Typical reactions in an emergency
Signaling and communication in an incident
Post-incident assessment / evaluation - physical and emotional.
Importance of guide self-rescue
Scenarios
Training Opportunities: WFA/WFR/SWR, etc.
Equipment
Personal equipment required/recommended/nice to have
How to manage personal equipment on a trip – one day, overnight in campground, expedition
Camping:
Pitch a tent
Camping in the rain
Logistics – plan a shuttle (Sierra Club carpool rules?)
Carpool(Sierra Club carpool rules?)
Games
Tribes – is each trainee taking initiative?
Mel's list:
Games
Managing Personal Gear
Required equipment
Recommended equipment
"Nice to Have" equipment
(LINK TO EQUIPMENT/PACKING LISTS)
Roles & Leadership
Trip logistics
Carpools and shuttles
Timing
Throw bag practice
Knots (just a few practical ones)
Pre-trip for weekend one
Games and circles
Camp Management
Breaking Camp
Leave No Trace ethics
Kitchen
Stoves
Comm kit
Sanitation, personal & cooking
Garbage
tent or not to tent
Tarps for shelter and tarps for the environment
Into to river etiquette & quiet zones
SOFAR conservation and history
Intro to working with ICO participant groups
Who we serve
how a participant trip works
Working with youth (our constituents in particular)
managing groups - games, activities,conservation/Environmental education and teamwork
Good ICO citizenship
group awareness
self management
listening skills
how to be a good volunteer (more later!)
expectations
On River
Hypothermia Talk (on and off river) and cold weather gear
Put-in / Take-out management
Time management
Boat care
inflation and rigging
deflation and rolling (after a day of use)
PFD Basics
Paddle talk
How to sit in the boat (as guide and paddler)
Boat handling principles
guide strokes and commands (as guide and paddler)
Using crew
Ferrying
Hydrology Demo
Identify obstacles
Reading water /river hazards
Intro to Scouting rapids
Introduce Eddy
Water/boat comfort
swimming class 1 & 2 water (yes, it's cold)
self rescue
rescuing others (with & w/o a bag)
sticks and flips
Safety Talk
Signals
Bow-line coil
Truckers Hitch
Mooring Hitch
No-knot
Quick Release
River etiquette & quiet zones
Reading water /river hazards / communication
Momentum control / maneuvering
Boat spacing and attention to other boats
Avoiding obstacles
Catching eddies
Introduce forward away options
Scouting rapids part II:
Safety while scouting
Picking routes
Identify channels
Communicating the plan
South Fork
Lines through major rapids
Rapid names (acronyms?)
Incident Management
Stop Think Observe Plan
Stuck boats
Swimmers
Flips / Dumptrucks / Wraps
Communication
Protocols (TBD)
Swimming rapids class 3
Flip drills in moving water
Advanced sticks and flips
Pivoting
Comments from old page:
Jon Wurl - May 28, 2009 8:33 AM
I think under "working with ICO groups" there should be a cultural diversity awareness section. In general, ICO (as ICO) gets short-changed in our guide training. This is for a reason, because there is so much other intense hard-skill training that needs to occur. I wonder if maybe another classroom session might be the way to handle it?
Jon Wurl - May 28, 2009 8:35 AM
And what I mean by "ICO as ICO" is the types of things other ICO groups do nationally, or the equivalent of what SJ ICO calls "volunteer orientation."
MISCELLANEOUS SKILLS
Groover
INSTRUCTOR SUPPORT
Instructor training
Instructor refresher class?
Tune-up: instructor rafts to trade tricks, techniques
Review progressions, new curriculum