What happens on a typical trip?
Participants sign up by calling a RSVP phone number or sending an email to the trip leader at least a week in advance. This information is at: http://www.postcanoeclub.org/post_2008_schedule.html. We usually gather early Saturday morning at the storage facility in Point Richmond. Everyone takes part in loading canoes and gear into the clubs trailer and van. At least one other vehicle is necessary for shuttle. If not meeting with the group in Richmond, get the meeting information from the trip leader. For a normal camping weekend trip, the club provides or organizes food for Sat. dinner, Sunday breakfast and lunch. All participants share in cooking, cleaning, and other group chores. We often stop at a restaurant on the way home. Always bring a check to pay POST fees at the time of the trip. What experience do I need? Ultimately, everyone is responsible for their own safety. POST recommends the following guidelines. For Class I day?trips, a basic grasp of flat?water canoeing is needed.
You will be picked up from your hotel or designated place and time that you have agreed with our company’s reservationists or representatives. The guide will then release forms, and making sure that everyone is prepared for the river trip. The river guide will give a safety talk. You must listen to them carefully. There will be exciting rapids and your river guide will further instruct on how to navigate the boat.
You’ll meet your trip leader at your trip=s designated rendezvous place and time. He or she will collect your release forms, distribute wet suits if you rent them from us and invite everyone to join him or her on our shuttle bus. After a very fun shuttle ride, we arrive at our riverside raft “put-in” location where the trip leader will issue you a life jacket, paddle and (if you are on a Class IV+ or V trip) a helmet. You will then listen to our 20 minute instructional “safety talk” about how you, your paddle crew and your guide will work together as a team on the water. Then you and your friends will head to your boat! On most of our trips we run paddle boats or oar-paddle combination boats. You will be paddling with the rest of your crew to power your boat down the river. The boats typically seat six to eight people and a guide. Before you leave shore, our guides will instruct you on efficient paddling technique.
You’ll meet your trip leader and guides at your trip’s designated rendezvous place (available here on our website) and time. He or she will collect your Assumption of Risk forms, distribute wet suits, booties, splash jackets etc and then they have everyone join him or her on the river for the safety and paddle talk and then launch onto the river or we have everyone hop on the River Riders shuttle bus which takes you to our riverside raft “put-in” location. The safety and paddle talk will teach you about how you, your paddle crew and your guide will work together as a team on the water. Then you and your friends will head to your boat! On most of our trips we run paddle boats. You will be paddling with the rest of your crew to power your boat down the river. The boats typically seat six to eight people and a guide. Before you leave shore, our guides will instruct you on efficient paddling technique. Once in the boat, your crew will push off out onto the water where your guide will give
You’ll meet your trip leader at your trip=s designated rendezvous place and time. He or she will collect your release forms, distribute wet suits if you rent them from us and invite everyone to join him or her on our shuttle bus. After a very fun shuttle ride, we arrive at our riverside raft “put-in” location where the trip leader will issue you a life jacket, paddle and (if you are on a Class IV+ or V trip) a helmet. You will then listen to our 20 minute instructional “safety talk” about how you, your paddle crew and your guide will work together as a team on the water. Then you and your friends will head to your boat! On most of our trips we run paddle boats or oar-paddle combination boats. You will be paddling with the rest of your crew to power your boat down the river. The boats typically seat six to eight people and a guide. Before you leave shore, our guides will instruct you on efficient paddling technique. Once in the boat, your crew will push off out onto the water where your
