What did we find out?

For the calm versus active waters, we found a greater elevation change in the rapid areas than in the calm stretch. We found that the water around tongues, eddies and holes pushes our raft around in various directions, which helped us avoid getting dumped into the river. Finally, we learned that there is a time and a place to back paddle and forward paddle. For example, you might want to back paddle through an eddy, and forward paddle through a tongue. more...