Date: 18/09/2012
Location: Arnold River, Upper Grey River.
Weather: Fine
Group: 14 DOIG students. Grant South (Southey) and Koryn Gould were our assessors
Grade: 2 - 3
Duration: 3 days
Spent two days on the Arnold demonstrating our guiding and rescue skills. On the final day we went out on the Upper Grey River to put our guiding to the test. Unfortunately I had bad lines and was to slow on my calls and I didn't achieve my grade three. But i have found out what i need to do and I will work towards this in the future.
Up Skill (I)
Date: 15/09/2012
Location: Arnold
Weather: Overcast
Group: My raft had Owen Lee and myself instructing and we had Tim, Connor and Julia learning.
Grade: 2
Duration: 5 hours
Cool day on the river helping out the first years with their guiding. It made me more aware of what I would do in those situations and helped my guiding too.
Arnold (G)
Date: 28/08/2012
Location: Arnold river:
Weather: Clear
Group: Rata Lovell-Smith and Myself as guides, Phil Johnston was the tutor with us.
Clients: 5 TPP Cafe students.
Grade: 2
Duration: 2 hours
Took a group of students from TPP on a rafting trip today only 5 of them came in the end so I guided and Rata sat in. they all enjoyed the day and everything went smoothly.
Client Days (I-G)
Date:
Location: Lake Brunner, Arnold river
Weather: Clear
Group: Sara Dwyer, Rata Lovell-Smith, Tui Kraal and Myself Tutor is Zane Smith.
Clients: JPII, Mawhera Services Academy.
Grade: 2
Duration: 3 days instruction, 1 day guiding.
Key Learning: Teaching basic raft strokes, hydrology and basic rescue.
got to be part of the coolest week took a group of kids that we had on the kayak client days for rafting. over 3 days we taught them all the basic rafting skills rescue skills and some hydrology. over the 3 days we all had heaps of fun and got on well wish we could have done a big mission on the Friday. But we took Mawhera Services Academy this was much different and they ate us alive and things went down hill fast. It was needed to see that not all clients are easy and we need to change how we do things for different groups.
Rangitata (TPP)
Date: 01/04/12- 05/04/12
Location: Rangitata gorge
Weather: clear and warm
Group: 14 DOIG students
Grade: 4/5
Duration: 4 Days
Key Learning: Crew management, safety talks, paddle talks, guiding bigger water, assisted flips.
We drove over to Rangitata rafting on Saturday amped for a sweet week rafting. the first day we just had a refresher on systems and throw bagging. then day two it was all on we set off and we guided everything apart from the Rosters tail which the tutors guided the next few days some of us had a go at guiding it and on the last day i decided i wanted to run it. i took the right line and hit the buffer and tried to get into the water going right but was fed slightly off line and went over the pour over.
Thank you Phil and Rangitata Rafts for the photos.
Scouting Rosters tail.
Owen guiding Rosters.
Ratas line through Pigs Trough.
Date: 13/03/12- 16/03/12
Location: Murchison. Lower Matakitaki, Granity and O'Sulleys
Weather: Fine
Group: 15 DOIG students and 3 Tutors Koryn Gould, Nathan Topp, Baz Goes
Grade: 4/3
Duration: 4 days
Key Learning: tethered rafts, tethered swimmers, swimming, throw bagging, rescue scenarios
Went to Murchison for our second week of raft with a rescue focus spending the first two days on the Lower Matakitaki refreshing our skills and doing scenarios.
Pulling out trees.
Making swimming difficult on Granity.
Tethered raft in Ariki Falls.
Sweet flip from Grace.
Coming out of the flip
Chris's great idea.
Me having a go.
Upper Grey (TPP)
Date: 28/02/12- 02/03/12
Location: Upper Gray, Arnold
Weather: First two days clear rain day 3 and 4
Group: 15 DOIG students and 4 tutors Koryn Gould, Nathan Topp, Darren and Baz Goes
Grade: 3/2
Duration: 4 days
Key learning: technical water rafting skills and crew management
For the first week back on raft we had a 3 day trip down the upper grey the first two days we scraped our way down some boney rapids which required some precise moves to get through without getting stuck and on the seccond night it started raining and as we woke up the river was starting to rise. When we put on the river had gone from supper low to high and the way through became bigger and we made our way through rapids much easier. on friday we had a repair session followed by a quick trip down the local Arnold.
Thank you to Phil Palzer and Dan Morgan for all the Photos
Getting stuck is all part of the Grey.
Camp Life
Getting stuck again.
Wrapping the raft
Date: 20th - 23rd September
Location: Murcheson. Lower Matakitaki, O'sulleys to Iron Bridge.
Weather: Clear
Group: Outdoor Recreation Group 1. Tutors- Phil Johnson, Grant South (Southey), Koryn Gould
Grade: 3/3+
Duration: 4 Days
Key Learning: Picking lines, Rowing the gear raft, Moving around the river, Tethered raft, Tethered swimmer,
Incidents: None
An awesome week in Murch we spent Tuesday and Wednesday doing river rescue stuff on the lower Matakitaki river. We learnt how to move around in and out of the river also how to move tethered rafts and swimmers around. on the. We ran the section on Wednesday which was awesome we also stopped and set up a few scenarios like setting up a stabilization line in a hole and sinking a throw bag. the Thursday we learnt how to pack a gear raft and set off on our multi day trip we had 3 paddle boats and one gear raft we had two self guided rafts and Southey was on the other so we had a great time paddling and at the camp the highlight of the trip was defiantly guiding Gunslinger rapid and dropping into gunsmoke a huge hole at the bottom and getting thrown into the front of the boat.
Thank you to Greg Lee for the photos.
Snag lane on Lower Matakitaki.
Scouting Whale Creek Rapid on the Buller.
Portaging Ariki Falls.
Cooking at the Camp site.
At the take out.
Date: 13th - 16th September
Location: Lake Brunner, Arnold River, Grey river Gentle Annie gorge
Weather: Rain
Group: Outdoor recreation Group 1. Tutors- Phil Johnson, Grant South (Southey), Koryn Gould
Grade: 2,3
Duration: 4 days
Key Learning: Sweep strokes, pry strokes, draws, J strokes, entering and exiting eddys, forward and back ferries, safety talks, paddle talks, throw bags, re-throws, flips, getting into the raft, helping people into the raft.
Incidents: None
A awesome week learning to raft guide we spent the first morning on lake Brunner learning all the strokes and learnt how to get into the boat and flip the boat. we then went down the Arnold learning to avoid rocks in the river easily and move the boat around the river on Thursday we had a change and headed to the upper grey and ran the Gentle Annie Gorge which was at a high flow so it washed out all the technical rappids so it was bigger water rather than technical but still an awsome day the last day we ran the arnold again and tuned up what we learnt on the grey. an awsome week and i cant wait for week 2
