in my experience
the average recreational paddler does not have the experience to fetter out the fine details of reading water below dams. By the time they try to get a look, they could be sucked in. It’s better for most folks to play it safe. My advice remains, don’t go near it until you are very confident that you are expert enough to read the signs.
Your 2nd post is very different from 1st
I agreed with the basic part of your first post (and I said so), and now that you’ve added the exact same qualifier as I did in my reply to you, you could have known there was no need to write your second post in a way that suggests we still disagree.
travel
into RI was always an accident…
‘wow lookit this we’re in RI.’
'…'you gave us a wrong turn dummy
today we have Google Ert so the river is run from above, all major obstructions clocked into the GPS with a note of L , R or C.
We still scan of course as the GPS has bad habits…
The Chattooga rock low head with trap was a solemn affair.
We dropped over in rafts, churned a bit then moseyed out dragging the sternman with us, put in at the left side beach.
A speech abt the recent, a few days before, drowning there, flowers spread on the waters…the usual.
Natural dam looking very peaceful but very powerful in that boil. Awesome you know that it could sit there and eat people
Yep, the usual
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Yeah, speeches about drownings, laying flowers for the deceased... That pretty much sums up my usual paddling adventures also, Datakoll.
Why the hell is this "Datatroll" bot even posting here? More to the point, why hasn't the account been blocked long ago?
sigh NM
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http://goo.gl/ZKicr
http://www.thestate.com/entertainment/local-events/article25778437.html
http://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/River/detail/id/476
The river and area are not the West.
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Encountering recirculating currents and turbulent waters may be a boater’s worst nightmare, yet many people are not aware of these threats while cruising. Understanding how they are formed and how to identify them will help you avoid unwanted accidents.