Swimming, or how to avoid it.

They make those collapsible water carriers that hold five or more gallons. Since they are commonly used when camping why not take one or two of them along for the trip and use them for water when you need to store water or when you need to cross water just use your lungs and fill them up and float to the other side. If you have two of them you can use some rope to make a sling to sit on or put them under your arms.
 
I weigh about 155 after a large lunch. As to why I can't swim, I grew up in the lovely prairie of Saskatchewan. I've spent more time on lakes, than in them (they tend to be frozen a lot more up there)
Also, as mentioned, a couple near drownings really take the fun out of the water.

The swim is totally secondary to the actual course, its just that the only other place we would have access to is somewhere we've already been, and up until this week was dead-dry and not much of a view, so we voted for the nicer scenery. We would never do a trip with clients that required a swim, unless they carried PFDs for that segment, and possibly had a lifeguard as well, but as adults, we do a bit more.
there is a swimming part of the course, for my canoeing segment, but that only required a 50M swim with a pfd on. its not a super high level qualification, but I'm not going to be on any serious water.
 
Gadgetgeek,

I assume you'll be posting some pics at the end of the trek. :cool:

Can you say where the course is at? What part of Aussie-land?
 
Mt Barney in south east Queensland. In other news, I'm pretty south of the main part of Marcia's predicted path, but depending on how it goes, it could be pretty rough here for a bit. We'll be catching a fair amount of rain for a few days yet.
 
gadgetgeek said:
Mt Barney in south east Queensland.
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OK, I'm good and jealous now. :cool:

WEA (Wilderness Education Association) Outdoor Leadership Certification involves a 21-day wilderness course, and that was only part of a semester-long field studies program I took in Uni. Each year they do the course in a different location, and that particular year the course happened to be in the Escalante area of Utah.

Our biggest challenge was finding water. :)
 
six months ago it was the same here. Lots of areas were very dry, and some were in a many year long drought. But 100+mm today, and another 100 forecast for tomorrow, I'm on the top of a hill, and my lawn is a pond.
 
100 mm didn't sound like a lot... Until I converted to American... That's four inches! :eek:

Some parts of the Sunshine Coast received more than 160 millimetres of rain in 24 hours.
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That's over six inches.
 
a few places were forecast for 400mm (15.7in) over the course of the system. we'll know in a day or two if that materialized. If it was snow, I'd be sitting under 4 feet!
 
Ziploc makes really huge bags that are pretty stout.
They make a 20 gallon one. Get a couple of those.
Should get you across a pond...
 
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