Thread: RSTH episode last night RIVER CROSSINGS

Originally Posted by ANOTHERHUNTER

red stag hunters club i think. its only on sky tv .

It's on Prime so also available on terrestrial Free View

Originally Posted by ANOTHERHUNTER

red stag hunters club i think. its only on sky tv .

Its also on prime 8.30 monday night mate. See Roktoy link above

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Hey team, just got out of the hills after chasing Sika around the Kaimanawas with little luck and am rather relieved to see that the dodgy river crossing scene in the last episode seems to have been fairly well received, was worried we would cop a bit of flak on that. Cheers for the positive messages, and yep - a pole will definitely be put to use for the next crossing.

One of the factors that allowed us to get across on the second morning was me finally putting the main camera into my pack and allowing the drone to simply lock on to us and film from the air, as having two hands free certainly made a big difference in terms of maintaining balance.

Two part special to round out the season starting next Monday which sees the team on a liveaboard mission to Stewart Island, probably the highlight of the year for us, hope you enjoy.

Cameraman Dave

https://www.primetv.co.nz/the-red-st...unters-club-s6

RIVER CROSSINGS IN NEW ZEALAND ?........It's happen hundreds of times before.....Sometimes done by choice / necessary / or ego to get to the other side?

Still good for him showing / advertisng that situation,how unforgiving rivers can be at times....By airing that clip they may have saved someones life in the future ?

However, congratulations overall on making a quality television show...top notch camera work....presentation etc.

Good call on turning back from river crossing after hind shot.Fast water above the knees in the dark asking for trouble.Keep up the filming Dave,good show.

Originally Posted by Trout

Good call on turning back from river crossing after hind shot.Fast water above the knees in the dark asking for trouble.Keep up the filming Dave,good show.

Ha just what I was telling my kids, fast water above the knees is a big no no. I remember that from a kid, going to school in Chch (Form 3 or 4 I think) we were taught how to do river crossings. I don't think any schools do that any more.

Also wondered why he didn't secure the rifle to his pack, and no pole. They should do a followup episode with some basic river crossing information, if it saved just one life it'd be worth it.

Good on you for showing the footage. It looked pretty dodgy but illustrates well the dangers of those SI rivers with spring snowmelt.

Bet the water wasnt warm either.....

150-200 years ago drowning whilst crossing rivers was known colloquially as "The New Zealand death". For a very good reason.

And yip, I too remember being taught how to cross rivers waaay back in Intermediate school, age 12. Then many times again at various bushcraft camps when deep into Tramping clubs. We always started teaching in gentle wide rivers in mid summer. Otaki River from memory. But winter temps and dirty fast water with no safe run out, even getting to knee height can be dodgy

“Experience” normally something you get after you needed it!

Plenty of us have done stuff in the Outdoors we’d think twice about doing again, climbing down through bluffs when we should climb back up and around, river crossings, etc I thought it was great they put it in, good decision to bivvy the night out, generally there’s less snow melt in the rivers in the early morning if it’s freezing overnight, that runout looked awful though, I’m sure the boys would approach it differently next time.

Good viewing. Brought back some memories of ''Nearly went bad-crossings'', . I learnt the hard way and am lucky to be here writing this. Teaching others may help save a life or two.
Looking forward to your Island episode.

I enjoyed that episode, principally because of the river crossing dilemma, and the issues around it.

I don't do subtle well at all, so am interested in others views about the Tahr S&D activity they covered. Obviously they weren't in a National park as they had the dog, and it seems they were not wanting to piss off DoC too much (understandable as they need to work with them for concessions etc.) so the control activity was attributed to 'the Government'. They did however identify culled bulls, and near the end commented they had found 11? So did anyone else interpret that stuff as a polite way of calling DoC bullshitters for saying they wouldn't target bulls outside the National Parks?

Originally Posted by Maxx

I enjoyed that episode, principally because of the river crossing dilemma, and the issues around it.

I don't do subtle well at all, so am interested in others views about the Tahr S&D activity they covered. Obviously they weren't in a National park as they had the dog, and it seems they were not wanting to piss off DoC too much (understandable as they need to work with them for concessions etc.) so the control activity was attributed to 'the Government'. They did however identify culled bulls, and near the end commented they had found 11? So did anyone else interpret that stuff as a polite way of calling DoC bullshitters for saying they wouldn't target bulls outside the National Parks?

In addition I enjoyed the subtle dig re the proliferation of Mt Cook Daisy’s despite tahr being in the area.

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