Maine Canoe River Guide Training
The focus of the Maine River Guide Training is on how to safely lead and manage groups on technical rivers during canoe trips.
The focus of the Maine River Guide Training is on how to safely lead and manage groups on technical rivers during canoe trips.
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May 3-7, 2023 | $950 |
Technical rivers are defined as having Class 2 and above rapids and/or mandatory portages around falls or rapids. This is not a white water skills clinic. Participants should be comfortable and competent in class 2 and above white water. You should be able to ferry, eddy out, peel out, etc. anywhere in a set of rapids in this level of difficulty. This course is designed for Maine Guides who want to become more competent and confident leading technical river trips and/or recreational paddlers who wish to run remote and technical rivers on their own. To view the course curriculum, click here.
Other topics – as time and interest permits: Fly fishing, Lost clients, Map and compass, Contours and river gradients, Canoe/camping techniques, Canoe pins, avoiding, unpinning, haul systems, Knots every guide should know.
11 a.m. Meet at Grindstone Falls.
Afternoon: equipment, canoe outfitting, self rescue, group management, review & practice ferries, eddy turns, peel outs.
Camp – Oxbow.
More of the above.
Scouting, reading rapids, paddle signals, t bag protection, navigation, communication in rapids, lining, portaging techniques, approaching portages.
Camp – Grand Pitch.
More of Day 2 topics plus poling on Wassataquoik Stream.
Camp – Bowlin Falls.
Paddle/pole to Grindstone Falls.
Camp – Grindstone Falls.
Run Grindstone Falls after scouting.
Off river at noon.
Drive back to Grindstone Falls and picnic area by mid afternoon.
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