Thread: River walking. How?

pack floating is a technique you need to learn and practise...
old school frame pack..you use it like a float board...
internal frame..like most of you have,you sit facing downstream,lean back like in an arm chair,scull with arms out to side and keep feet infront of you to fend yourself off rocks....yes the buckle thing is controversial...I BELIEVE the current theory is still you half undo them,eg you do strap up tight and click the bottom out,so just need to hit top leg in buckle and you are free.
big plastic bags around your stuff mean the pack is very bouyant...a couple of empty plastic bottles and its VERY bouyant.
leaning where and when NOT TO CROSS is just as important.... drowning used to be referred to as the New Zealand death,as we had horrific statistics in early years.