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Expedition Skills & Camp craft This module is aimed at Leaders wanting to expand their knowledge and experience of guiding in their chosen environment. Aimed at adding value and safety and comfort to your day trips to multi day

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Expedition Skills & Camp craft

  • This module is aimed at Leaders wanting to expand their knowledge

and experience of guiding in their chosen environment.

  • Aimed at adding value and safety and comfort to your day trips to

multi day expeditions in the UK and overseas.

  • This session is discursive, inter-active, other Leaders will have their
  • wn experiences which should also be shared here.
  • I will share with you my top tips and views to try and offer you a

valuable insight to help you to make the most out of journeying with your chosen craft.

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Planning an expedition

  • To journey with a purpose, what is the purpose of your expedition?
  • Planning: Aim, Factors, Courses Open, Plan
  • Logistics. What factors do you need to consider: S.H.E.E.T.S
  • Shared goals & commitments
  • Equipment, personal, group,
  • Dictated by the environment

‘No such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing’

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Japan Vs South Georgia

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Comparatives

No two expeditions are the same

Japan 5000 Miles 139 paddling days out of 180 Cost £3000-4000 (approximately) 4 Islands spread across 4 climatic zones South Georgia 350 Miles 13 Days 8 Hours £139,000 (approximately) Remote Island in Southern Ocean

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Please Remember What Comes First

  • Protection
  • Rescue
  • Water
  • Combustion
  • Food
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Protection

  • Protection: protect yourself & your group from obvious threats, this

can be various:

  • Weather
  • Environment
  • Wild Life
  • Human
  • Themselves, moral boosting etc
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Rescue

  • Develop an Emergency Action Plan
  • Rescue: If the situation necessitates it, instigate your EAP to initiate a

rescue:

  • Flares, VHF’s/Satellite Phones, EPIRB/PLB
  • Other signaling methods, Mirrors, Fires (day/night), signs, Night sticks,

features

  • Rescue Drills
  • Follow EAP
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WATER

Ensuring that suitable drinking water is available for you and the group is vital:

  • Planning (3-4 liters per day?)
  • Sourcing
  • Hazards
  • Purification methods & safe water drills
  • Waste management
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Combustion

  • Combustion: Creating fire is a vital wilderness skill, guides require

several methods to light fire beyond the naked flame.

  • Fire triangle, Oxygen, Heat and Fuel
  • Fire Preparation
  • Fuel
  • Ignition
  • Knife, saw & Axe safety and skill
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FOOD

Energy Burn 125-lb. person burns 283 calories per hour 150-lb. person burns 340 calories per hour 175-lb. person burns 397 calories per hour 200-lb. person burns 454 calories. Higher body weight requires increased energy expenditure for activity.

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Wild Life

Our Fur seal bite kit:-

  • A bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide

Solution

  • A tooth brush
  • Antibiotics
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Hanging a Bear Bag

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Loading a sea kayak

  • DUAL for canoe bags
  • How to Load the kayak
  • Deck bags
  • Use of doubles on expedition
  • Wing versus Touring blades
  • Individual equipment
  • Group equipment
  • Creature comforts
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Points to consider

  • Maps Vs charts (Pre preg maps with tidal info)
  • Shared daily goals
  • Route selection
  • Selecting your campsite
  • ERV’s (Pointing out & Going back)
  • Hard Routine ‘Travel fast go alone, travel far go with others’
  • Lost person Protocols
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Route selection 4 Elements planning

  • Wind
  • Tide
  • Swell
  • Climate
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Camp Admin

  • Camp duties
  • Food management
  • Waste management
  • Wildlife encounters
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Useful Knots

  • Stopper Knot
  • Joining Knot
  • Hold Fast Knot
  • Constriction Knot
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Stopper knot

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Ordinary Prussik

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Double sheet bend

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Over Hand

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Slippery clove hitch

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Double Fisherman

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Honda Knot

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Clove Hitch

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Slippery over hand

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Highwayman’s Hitch

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Round turn two half hitches

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Bowline

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Minimal walkabout pack - The 5 C’s

  • Cutting
  • Combustion
  • Cordage
  • Container
  • Cover
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Handy reminder before venturing out

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Plan your route and check met

  • A

Always leave a float plan and EASP

  • D

Deck map, compass, whistle, knife, ouch pouch, repair kit

  • D

Double up small dry bags and link

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Less than 3 should never be

  • E Equipment – safety, clothing, spares and victuals
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Remember the international distress signal and carry means

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STOP – incident, casualty or change in met

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Review

  • Develop YOUR personal action plan
  • Consider how this module will affect

Your paddling? Your coaching Your students Your clients

  • Where next?