Course Description
Participants in the Peak’s Packraft Training Course will learn to use a packraft as a means of downriver travel or to access gear or personnel in difficult situations.
Topics Covered Include
- Remote-based rescues with limited rescue resources
- Personnel and group communication
- Throw bagging
- Basic paddling skills
- Self recovery and assisted recovery in a packraft
- Packraft limitations and advantages
- Proper use of a packraft as a rescue craft
- Packraft field repair
- Shallow water crossings
- Hazard avoidance and recognition
- Problem solving with limited gear and resources
- Overall emergency assessment and recognition dealing with swiftwater application