Thanks for providing quality entertainment to the whitewater world and keep up the good work, may you be blessed with many sponsors. I could expand on this but for the sake of brevity I’ll stop here. If the climbing and backcountry world can do this why can’t we? Lot’s of talk about risk, personal choices, and the like, but not really asking the hard questions about “what are the events that lead to these things”. Not to put you all on blast, but this was even apparent in the episode. In whitewater we learn by doing, but there is a place for thoughtful reflection in regards to decision making.Īdditionally, in this age of pushing the water level up on familiar runs by admitting that it’s possible that something like high water is a risk factor it would force us to look at our own decisions. After Sam’s death the only time someone would mention that the water was very high (900 cfs or so) is in hushed tones and in private company. That if we say out loud (for example) that the water was High, they put on at 1:00pm in December, and that they were only a group of 2 is to admit that they might have made poor decisions that lead to the incident. I’ve noticed that when something like a death happens on the river people don’t want to talk about these kinds of details, it’s almost as if by talking about the details we’ll be speaking poorly of the dead. They look at the Environmental factors, decisions made, and Heuristic traps that leads to the incidents. If you look to the Mountaineering, rock climbing, backcountry ski world when there is death or even a accident that leads to injury they do a much better job of doing a forensic analysis of what happened that lead to the accident (links below).
With that said I’d like to address something in regards to how we deal with river accidents.Īs a culture/community/sport when these accidents happen we don’t do a good job of analyzing the accident. Thanks for the recent episode regarding the most recent river deaths, as a Seattle boater the loss of Sam hit us all very hard. To start I’d like to remain anonymous if this is used on the air. We owe it to ourselves and to the whitewater community at large. (I’m currently speaking with several M.D.’s to gain insight for the questionnaire) This will give us more data regarding the effects of marijuana than any other study to date and help the Hammer Factor gain traction in the medical news community (Which I’m sure will help out Grace’s pocketbook).Īnywho, I’ve got the brilliant idea, you guys have the means to make it happen. After each attempt, they will fill out a detailed questionnaire rating aspects of their experience and how the “jazz cabbage” affected them. I think that everyone who listens to the show should be challenged to kayak their favorite river and SUP 5 miles of flatwater into a headwind back to back two times once sober and once balls-to-the-wall stoned. I feel like this disconnect is reflected across the broader community of kayakers, and that we as the Hammer Factor community have the perfect platform to solve this problem once and for all. It was interesting to hear how some on the panel viewed the “devil’s lettuce” as a performance enhancer while others saw it as a performance inhibitor. I really enjoyed listening to episode 46 and getting all of the gang’s take on the issues presented by pot in kayaking. It was good to hear the Cannabis talk! I will be representing a Cannabis Company this year as well!! Thank you Louis and Hammer Factor for always keeping us in the know. West Virginia is a microcosm for the rest of the country, where pristine environments and beautiful rivers are always at the risk of the extractive resource industry. If you like kayaking and recreating on public lands, this is an issue that will never go away. Thank you all for addressing the fact that sometimes you really do have to “eat your vegetables.” The only people who can afford to not be political are the ones whose rights are not being threatened. Even if the zinkster isn’t listening seems congress is. Is Zinke being muted after the bears ears shrinking? Has the hammer factor nation constant show of support for public lands had an affect. Hat tip to Jake Risch, did you get an invite to be on the panel Louis?īut last time zinke tried his tricks he got slapped down: In this episode we discuss Whitewater SUP with paddling legend Dan Gavere! But first #everythingisfucked…
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