>>512897I'm training to be a raft guide.
I'm no good at reading the water/finding the routes yet (I'm learning though!) but I can paddle like a motherfucker.
Basically, do everything the guide tells you and you'll be fine. Be lazy about it and you'll probably still be fine, but your guide will hate you and you may fall out.
>Stick your foot When they say lodge that shit under the thwart (The things that look like seats stretching the width of the boat) they mean it. This is your seat belt in a raft.
>Dig it in! Stick your fucking paddle in the water. Move the fucking water. Do not paddle like a pussy. We got this one group where the pretty girls were doing all the work while the guys slapped at the water with the tips of their paddles, constantly checking over their shoulder to see if we noticed they weren't working at all.
>Don't lose your paddle Just fucking don't. This is sacrilege as far as rafting is concerned.
>It's a PFD, not a life vest It won't save your life, it'll just make your corpse float.
But yeah at the end of the day it's just a guided trip with an /out/fitter, you'll have a guide who'll probably be funny and try to put on a bit of a show during the calm parts while maintaining a professional attitude for the sake of appearances, but deep down they know they're just babysitting some outsiders in their temple.
