Rafting
Instruction
Date:
21/06/2013
Date:
18/06/2013 - 20/06/2013
Rafting
Personal
Date:
11/06/2013
Trip location:
Arnold River, Stillwater
Group Members:
Rhys Hillock, Jono Irvine, Kristin Tisdall, Tim Boone
River Flow:
90 cubic meters per second
River Grade:
Grade 2
Duration of the
activity: One full day
Weather conditions:
Low early morning fog, cool temperatures, fog clearing as the day went on
A short narrative
which shares your learning and highlights: A
nice little morning raft trip down the Arnold River, we practiced moving about
the river, catching eddies, doing 180’s in eddies. The main idea for this for
me was just to become familiar with the river again before take clients down it
in following weeks.
Rafting Tai Poutini Polytechnic
Date: 22/03/2013
Date: 21/03/2013
Date: 20/03/2013
Date: 19/03/2013
Rafting
Tai Poutini Polytechnic
Date:
15/03/2013
Date:
14/03/2013
-Rooster Tail and Pigs Trough rapids
Date:
13/03/2013
-Rooster Tail and Pigs Trough rapids
Date:
12/03/2013
Rafting
Tai Poutini Polytechnic
Date:
22/02/2013
Date:
21/02/2013
Date:
20/02/2013
Date:
19/02/2013
Rafting Personal
Date: 05/05/2012
Rafting Instruction
Date:
21/06/2013
Trip location:
Grey River, middle section
Clients:
Westport area clients
River Grade:
2
Duration of the
activity: One full day
Weather conditions:
Sunny, some cloud, warm temperatures
A short narrative
which shares your learning and highlights:
Had a good day guiding the clients down a new section of river teaching them
about the area and the flora and fauna. There was one rapid that we scouted as
there was a massive tree in the main flow of the river, we decided to go around
this rapid.
Date:
18/06/2013 - 20/06/2013
Trip location:
Arnold River, Grey River (lower section)
Clients:
8x John Paul II high school and 5x Karamea Area school students
River Grade:
2
Duration of the
activity: Three full days
Weather conditions:
Overcast, rain heavy at times, cold temperatures
A short narrative
which shares your learning and highlights:
These three days the students were doing unit standards of learning to become a
raft guide, so we taught the students how to guide a raft on flat sheltered
water. The first day we taught them strokes and we did a quick trip down the
Arnold River, the last two days the students were mainly guiding down the Grey
River working on their guiding. I found these three days very fun and rewarding
because it was cool to see the students improving as the days went on.
Rafting Personal
Date:
11/06/2013
Trip location:
Arnold River, Stillwater
Group Members:
Rhys Hillock, Jono Irvine, Kristin Tisdall, Tim Boone
River Flow:
90 cubic meters per second
River Grade:
Grade 2
Duration of the
activity: One full day
Weather conditions:
Low early morning fog, cool temperatures, fog clearing as the day went on
A short narrative
which shares your learning and highlights: A
nice little morning raft trip down the Arnold River, we practiced moving about
the river, catching eddies, doing 180’s in eddies. The main idea for this for
me was just to become familiar with the river again before take clients down it
in following weeks.
Rafting Tai Poutini Polytechnic
Date: 22/03/2013
Trip Name/location: River Rescue - Matakitaki River - Lower
Section
Group Members: Tutors: Koyrn Gould, Nathon, Lisa Students: Rebecca Reidie, Ru
Kraal, Jono Irvine, Alice Payn, Kristin Tisdall, Lenny McGirr, Dylan McRae, Watson
Green, Jacob Willett, Rhys Hillock, Cady, Taylor
River Grade: Grade 2 & 3
Duration of the activity: One Full Day
Weather conditions: Cloudy with some blue sky, warm
temperatures
A short narrative which shares your learning and highlights: We did a river run down the
lower Matakitaki River in a technical rock garden, as we were going down we
still practiced our rescue systems, pulling logs out, throwbagging, and
concious and unconcious victims.
Date: 21/03/2013
Trip Name/location: River Rescue - Matakitaki River - Lower
Section
Group Members: Tutors: Koyrn Gould, Nathon, Lisa Students: Rebecca Reidie, Ru
Kraal, Jono Irvine, Alice Payn, Kristin Tisdall, Lenny McGirr, Dylan McRae, Watson
Green, Jacob Willett, Rhys Hillock, Cady, Taylor
River Grade: Grade 2 & 3
Duration of the activity: One Full Day
Weather conditions: Cloudy with some blue sky, warm
temperatures
A short narrative which shares your learning and highlights: In the morning we did a
wrapped raft scenerio on dryland and we did ‘Z drags’ and ‘Pig Rigs’ on dry
land also. Today we had to remove logs from the river which simulated rescuing
victims. We used all the techniques that we knew, from ten-man pull to pig rigs
to remove the logs.
Date: 20/03/2013
Trip Name/location: River Rescue - Matakitaki River - Lower
Section
Group Members: Tutors: Koyrn Gould, Nathan Topp,
Lisa Students: Rebecca
Reidie, Ru Kraal, Jono Irvine, Alice Payn, Kristin Tisdall, Lenny McGirr, Dylan
McRae, Watson Green, Jacob Willett, Rhys Hillock, Cady, Taylor
River Grade: Grade 2 & 3
Duration of the activity: One Full Day
Weather conditions: Overcast, light showers, cold
temperatures
A short narrative which shares your learning and highlights: We continued to practiced the
same things as the previous day. We worked on creating ‘V’ lowers, and
practiced moving a rescuer around the current on a releaseable cowstail.
Date: 19/03/2013
Trip Name/location: River Rescue - Matakitaki River - Lower
Section
Group Members: Tutors: Koyrn Gould, Nathan Topp, Lisa Students: Rebecca Reidie, Ru
Kraal, Jono Irvine, Alice Payn, Kristin Tisdall, Lenny McGirr, Dylan McRae, Watson
Green, Jacob Willett, Rhys Hillock, Cady, Taylor
River Grade: Grade 2 & 3
Duration of the activity: One Full Day
Weather conditions: Overcast, light showers, cold
temperatures
A short narrative which shares your learning and highlights: We practiced moving
throughout the river at speed, used different methods to get a rope across the
river; swimming, throwing it. Practiced crossing the river on the rope using
hand-over-hand technique. We created stablisation lines on dryland as a
refresher.
Rafting Tai Poutini Polytechnic
Date:
15/03/2013
Trip Name/location:
Rangitata River - Gorge Section
Group Members:
Tutors: Koyrn Gould, Nathan Topp, Grant South
Students: Rebecca Reidie, Ru
Kraal, Jono Irvine, Alice Payn, Kristin Tisdall, Logan Froriep, Lenny McGirr, Dylan
McRae, Watson Green, Jacob Willett, Rhys Hillock, Cady, Taylor
River Flow:
42 cubic meters per second
River Grade:
Grade 4/5
Duration of the
activity: One Full Day
Weather conditions:
Sunny, light high cloud, hot temperatures
A short narrative
which shares your learning and highlights: This
day was about putting everything that we have learnt together, running rapids
as a convoy and providing cover for the following rafts.
Date:
14/03/2013
Trip Name/location:
Rangitata River - Gorge Section
Group Members:
Tutors: Koyrn Gould, Nathan Topp, Grant South
Students: Rebecca Reidie, Ru
Kraal, Jono Irvine, Alice Payn, Kristin Tisdall, Logan Froriep, Lenny McGirr, Dylan
McRae, Watson Green, Jacob Willett, Rhys Hillock, Cady, Taylor
River Flow:
41 cubic meters per second
River Grade:
Grade 4/5
Duration of the
activity: One Full Day
Weather conditions:
Sunny, light high cloud, warm temperatures
Incident: Lenny
got bumped out of raft and he hit his lower back on a rock while floating down
a rapid.
A short narrative
which shares your learning and highlights:
We practiced squaring up to waves and buffers to make sure they don’t
effect/turn the raft, worked on making more assertive commands in higher graded
river.
-Rooster Tail and Pigs Trough rapids
Date:
13/03/2013
Trip Name/location:
Rangitata River - Gorge Section
Group Members:
Tutors: Koyrn Gould, Nathan Topp, Grant South
Students: Rebecca Reidie, Ru
Kraal, Jono Irvine, Alice Payn, Kristin Tisdall, Logan Froriep, Lenny McGirr, Dylan
McRae, Watson Green, Jacob Willett, Rhys Hillock, Cady, Taylor
River Flow:
41 cubic meters per second
River Grade:
Grade 4/5
Duration of the
activity: One Full Day
Weather conditions:
Overcast, cold temperatures, cloud clearing in the afternoon
Incident:
Logan got hit in the head by a paddle going down a rapid, he got slightly
concussed and pulled out for the rest of the trip
A short narrative
which shares your learning and highlights:
We continued to practice the safety and paddle talks, worked on sideways set-up
before rapids, we scouted the more difficult rapids for hazards and lines,
practiced creating a tethored raft scenerio.
-Rooster Tail and Pigs Trough rapids
Date:
12/03/2013
Trip Name/location:
Rangitata River - Gorge Section
Group Members:
Tutors: Koyrn Gould, Nathan Topp, Grant South
Students: Rebecca Reidie, Ru
Kraal, Jono Irvine, Alice Payn, Kristin Tisdall, Logan Froriep, Lenny McGirr, Dylan
McRae, Watson Green, Jacob Willett, Rhys Hillock, Cady, Taylor
River Flow:
42 cubic meters per second
River Grade:
Grade 4/5
Duration of the
activity: One Full Day
Weather conditions:
Overcast, cold temperatures, light winds
A short narrative
which shares your learning and highlights:
We learned to gear safety talks and paddle talks towards rafting a grade 4/5
river, scouting for correct lines down difficult rapids, providing safety for
other rafts.
Rafting Tai Poutini Polytechnic
Date:
22/02/2013
Trip Name/location:
Buller River - O’Sullivans to Ariki Falls
Group Members:
Tutors: Koyrn Gould, Nathan Topp, Lisa
Students: Rebecca Reidie, Ru
Kraal, Jono Irvine, Alice Payn, Kristin Tisdall, Logan Froriep, Lenny McGirr, Dylan
McRae, Watson Green, Jacob Willett, Rhys Hillock, Cady, Taylor
River Flow:
26 cubic meters per second
River Grade:
Grade 2-3
Duration of the
activity: One Full Day
Weather conditions:
Blue sky, no wind, hot temperatures
A short narrative
which shares your learning and highlights: We
practiced catching small eddies, scouting the difficult rapids, reading good
lines down through the rapids and in slow moving current to make it easier.
Continued practicing sideways set-up before rapids to make sure you hit the
line that you want.
Date:
21/02/2013
Trip Name/location:
Buller River - Granitiy Section
Group Members:
Tutors: Koyrn Gould, Nathan Topp, Lisa
Students: Rebecca Reidie, Ru
Kraal, Jono Irvine, Alice Payn, Kristin Tisdall, Logan Froriep, Lenny McGirr, Dylan
McRae, Watson Green, Jacob Willett, Rhys Hillock, Cady, Taylor
River Flow:
26 cubic meters per second
River Grade:
Grade 2-3
Duration of the
activity: One Full Day
Weather conditions:
High cloud, light headwind in the morning , warm temperatures
A short narrative
which shares your learning and highlights: We
continued to practiced sideways set-up before rapids, scouted the major rapids
to look for the correct line down, started to use the rocks in the river to pivot
the raft off and to turn around, we played around with using weight shifts in
the raft to squeeze between close or shallow rocks.
Date:
20/02/2013
Trip Name/location:
Buller River - Owen Section to Doctors
Group Members:
Tutors: Koyrn Gould, Nathan Topp, Lisa
Students: Rebecca Reidie, Ru
Kraal, Jono Irvine, Alice Payn, Kristin Tisdall, Logan Froriep, Lenny McGirr, Dylan
McRae, Watson Green, Jacob Willett, Rhys Hillock, Cady, Taylor
River Flow:
27 cubic meters per second
River Grade:
Grade 2-3
Duration of the
activity: One Full Day
Weather conditions:
Blue sky, light headwind in the afternoon, hot temperatures
A short narrative
which shares your learning and highlights: We
learned what sideways set-up and we practiced it on the river. You use sideways
set-up at the top of a rapid to move your raft across the river to get your
line down the rapid. We started to use the slow moving water in eddies to turn
the raft, praticed bulldozing into big, powerfull eddies. We practiced our
throwbagging with concious and unconcious victims.
Date:
19/02/2013
Trip Name/location:
Buller River - Owen Section
Group Members:
Tutors: Koyrn Gould, Nathan Topp, Lisa
Students: Rebecca Reidie, Ru
Kraal, Jono Irvine, Alice Payn, Kristin Tisdall, Logan Froriep, Lenny McGirr, Dylan
McRae, Watson Green, Jacob Willett, Rhys Hillock, Cady, Taylor
River Flow:
29 cubic meters per second
River Grade:
Grade 1-2
Duration of the
activity: One Full Day
Weather conditions:
Blue sky, no wind, hot temperatures
A short narrative
which shares your learning and highlights: Moving
the raft about through the river, practicing the strokes, catching eddies,
reconizing different water speeds in the river: looking for slow moving and
fast moving water when we needed to use it. We practiced doing anchor systems
on dry land and learned the ‘Wrap 3, Pull 2’ when using a anchor on the shore.
Rafting Tai Poutini Polytechnic
Date: 30/03/2012
Trip Name/location: River trip down the Buller River, Earthquake to
Iron Bridge
Group Members: Tutors- Koryn Gould, Barry Goes. Students- Jono Irvine, Hugo Reid, Zenzi Breitenberger, Logan Froriep, Corey Burrowes, Rob Bruce, Kristin Tisdall, Watson Green, Ari Kingan, Julia Melville, Rhys Hillock
River Flow: 34 cumic metres per second
River Grade: Grade 2-3
Duration of the activity: One full day on moving water (Day two
of multi day trip)
Weather conditions: Sunny, clear skies, warm
A short narrative which shares your learning and
highlights: Continued
to practice guiding the rafts down the river, doing raft flips, scouting
rapids, and providing safety for other rafts. Learned how to guide the gear
raft with oars down the rapids and practiced navigating it through the
river.
- Looking down the Buller River
Date: 29/03/2012
Trip Name/location: River trip down the Buller River, O’Sullivans to
EarthquakeRiver Flow: 38 cubic metres per second
River Grade: Grade 2-3
Duration of the activity: One full day on moving water (Day one of multi day trip)
Weather conditions: Overcast in the morning with light winds, clearing in the afternoon
A short narrative which shares your learning and highlights: Learned how to pack a gear raft for a multi day river trip, we had to make sure that everything was tied down and wouldn’t come out if the raft flipped. While on the river we continued to practice guiding down rapids, and doing raft flips. Practiced scouting rapids, looking for the best and safest line, and looking for spots to provide safety for the other rafts.
- Hugo, Rob and Zenzi waiting to go down the rapids
Date: 28/03/2012
Trip Name/location: Rescue scenarios on the lower Matakitaki River,
Murchison
River Grade: Grade 2
Duration of the activity: One full day of rescue on moving water
Weather conditions: Sunny and warm
A short narrative which shares your learning and
highlights: Learned
dryland drills about the different rescue methods, stabilisation lines, sinch
lines, vector pulls, and setting up teathered swimmers/rafts. In the afternoon
we did scenarios to practice the rescue methods on moving water.
Date: 27/03/2012
Trip Name/location: Rescue session on the lower Matakitaki River,
Murchison
River Grade: Grade 2
Duration of the activity: Rescue session in the afternoon on
moving water
Weather conditions: Cloudy, light wind, sunny in the afternoon
A short narrative which shares your learning and
highlights: Learned
how to swim about the river in a safe way. Learned how to do safe shallow water
entries, swimming through rapids, and quick travel on shore. Practiced
different ways to get ropes to the other side of the river and how important
rope management is.
Rafting Tai Poutini Polytechnic
Date: 23/03/2012
Trip Name/location: River trip down the mid Grey River section
Group Members: Tutors- Koryn
Gould, Barry Goes. Students- Jono Irvine, Hugo Reid, Zenzi Breitenberger, Logan Froriep, Corey Burrowes, Rob Bruce, Kristin Tisdall,
Watson Green, Ari Kingan, Julia Melville, Rhys Hillock
River Flow: 250 cubic metres per second
River Grade: Grade 2-2+
Duration of the activity: One full day on moving water
Weather conditions: Overcast, light rain with clear spells
A short narrative which shares your learning and
highlights:
Practiced our safety and paddle talks as well as river navigation. We started
to learn about scouting rapids, learning what to look out for, where to go and
where not to go.
- Waiting for the guides to scout the rapid out
- Looking up the Grey River
Date: 22/03/2012
Trip Name/location: River trip down the Arnold River, Stillwater
River Flow: 50 cubic metres per second
River Grade: Grade 1-2
Duration of the activity: One full day on moving water
Weather conditions: Overcast, rainy spells throughout the day
A short narrative which shares your learning and
highlights: Had a
classroom session about how MNZ, NZRA and Skills Active interact with each
other. Worked on ferry gliding, catching eddies, and river navigation
throughout the river trip.
Date: 21/03/2012
Trip Name/location: River trip down the Arnold River, Stillwater
River Flow: 55 cubic metres per second
River Grade: Grade 1-2
Duration of the activity: One full day on moving water
Weather conditions: Clear skies, sunny, hot
A short narrative which shares your learning and
highlights: Had a
classroom session about river hydrology, environmental safety and river
etiquette. Continued to practice our safety and paddle talks to clients. Worked
on river navigation, signals, boat flipping and knots used for rafting.
Date: 20/03/2012
Trip Name/location: River trip down the Arnold River, Stillwater
River Flow: 60 cubic metres per second
River Grade: Grade 1-2
Duration of the activity: One full day on moving water
Weather conditions: Windy in the morning, sunny and hot in the
afternoon
A short narrative which shares your learning and
highlights:
Practiced the different paddling strokes on slow moving water, feeling how the
boat reacts with the different moves. Practiced different rescue techniques,
what to do when the raft flips and how to do safety talks to clients. Worked on
navigating down the river, using the different strokes and how to be a raft
guide.
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