Hi everybody,

Excuse my English, I'm Raphael from France. 4 years ago, I made a
hydrospeed (nearly riverboard) trip with friends in Canada. Four
days all alone, with camp gear and food in one dry bag per person.
We drag our floating bag with a 4 meters rope. When there were big
waves, we caught our bag with one hand, with the rope coiled, ready
to leave it in case of emergency. On very big wave, we left the bag
just before the wave and catch it after the wave.

Wath this,
http://www.dreamnev.org/fr/article.php3?id_article=147

Everything is here, in french, sorry.

Regards

Raphael
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--- In whitewaterriverboarding@yahoogroups.com, minotmaser@... wrote:
>
> Thanks for the info. Checked out the article, interesting. I
have extremely
> light weight camp gear -- as I've been an alpine climber for
years. So I'm
> pretty sure I could fit all I need in a 20 liter dry bag for the
3-4 days
> down the Middle Fork. Question is, what's it like to surf waves
(the whole
> point of the trip) with a dry bag on one's back? I'm going to
test my gear here
> once I get some free time in a week. Also, what grade water were
you running
> when you did the 18 miler and where was it? The Middle Fork can
get pretty
> solid with a number of IV+'s with high water at the end of May.
I don't
> think I'm going to do it if it's forecast above 4,500 cfs. Where
are you based?
> I'm in Missoula~Minot
>