Swiftwater Rescue courses are available for private river runners, commercial river guides and professional rescuers.  These courses provide curriculum and instruction on river hydrology, swimming, self support, peer rescue, rescue of gear, and skills to avoid situations where rescue is needed.  This episode hosts interviews with two instructors of Swiftwater Rescue courses.  One instructor works on the rivers of the western United States, the other instructor works on th rivers of ten Southeast United States, Costa Rica and Ecuador.  

This is part of a 3-episode cluster with an overall theme of, HOW TO RUN RIVERS. The specific focus of this episode is about SWIFTWATER RESCUE .  The other two episodes focus on HOW TO GET KIDS ON THE RIVER  and FOOD PACKING FOR THE RIVER.  All of the episodes of this cluster are available right now and it does not matter in which order you listen to this cluster.  

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• Juliet Jacobsen Kastorff
  • Endless River Adventures
• Scott Solle
  • Swiftwater Safety Institute
  • Sol Gear

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An Interview with Legendary Whitewater Safety Leader Charlie Walbridge

ARTICLES & BOOKS

Finding Swiftwater Rescue Classes

Swiftwater Rescue by Slim Ray

River Rescue by Les Bechdel, Slim Ray and Charlie Walbridge  (several editions published)

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Getting kids on the river is many things: fun, life-shaping and maybe intimidating.  Lindsay DeFrates has written numerous “How to” articles based on her experience taking her 3 kids on river trips.  Lydia Wing founded a kayak school that teaches young people how to kayak rivers.  Their expert insights and approach to getting kids on the river is hosted in this episode. 

What are the key components of taking your kids on river trips?  How do you know what to bring and how to pack it?  Is it even fun to take kids on the river?  Lindsay DeFrates provides The River Radius with a few synopsis conversations about her numerous articles on the topic of getting kids on the river.  

How young can a kid start kayaking?  What will they learn in kayak school?  Where are kayak schools?  Lydia Wing reaches kids to kayak in the same places she learned to kayak and explains how she does it while listening to what the kid wants to learn.  

This is part of a 3-episode cluster with an overall theme of, HOW TO RUN RIVERS. The specific focus of this episode is about HOW TO GET KIDS ON THE RIVER.  The other two episodes focus on SWIFTWATER RESCUE and FOOD PACKING FOR THE RIVER.  All of the episodes of this cluster are available right now and it does not matter in which order you listen to this cluster.  

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• Lindsay DeFrates
  • Freelance writing website
  • Duct Tape Diaries
  • Down River Digest
• Lydia Wing
  • H2O Dreams
  • The video “We are River People”
  • Article about Pyranha Kayak Team

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River cleanups with excavators, barges, bigfoot and Oreos.  Living Lands & Waters is an “Industrial Strength River Cleanup” organization working to clean up the big rivers of middle America.  24 years.  118,000 volunteers.  12.4 million pounds of trash.  Living on barges.  Meeting the small obscure river towns.  

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Big Muddy Adventures, Clipper Canoes distributor

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Mike Coyne-Logan

Living Lands & Waters website, Instagram, Facebook

Employment Contact at LLW

Bison Bridge Project

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Have you ever heard someone say they don't listen to podcasts or don't know how?  Have you recently learned how to listen and want to know more?  This episode is all about how to listen to an episode.  So, go listen to this with someone who doesn't know how to use a podcast app and help them learn.  There are many people out there, many river people, waiting to learn how to listen to The River Radius Podcast.  

For this episode I sat down with my friend Peggy and taught her how to use her iPad to listen to the River Radius and to all of her favorite radio shows that she doesn't listen to anymore.  

Peggy is a retired school nurse, lives next a river and is class 4 front of the paddle boat paddle rafter.  

We take a step by step approach to cover the basics and a few tricks to make podcast listening easy and smooth.  

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The only place in the United States to purchase a new Clipper Canoe.
St Louis, Missouri

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https://www.2muddy.com/clippercanoes        (here for Clipper Canoe sales)
https://www.2muddy.com                                      (here for river trip outfitter)

GIVEAWAY
Launches February 2, 2022
Winner announced in February in Episode 37

THE GOODS
2 wooden hand built Sawyer canoe paddles from Big Muddy Adventures   (maybe different length)
1 Silverback Paco Pad from Jack's Plastic Welding
1 Cuddly Buddy from FunLuvin Fleecewear
 

THE HOW
Go the The River Radius Instagram and watch the Giveaway Launch Video on February 2, 2022. 
After that, follow each of the accounts (@riverradiuspodcast, @bmaguideshop, @jacksplasticwelding, @funluvin_fleecewear).
Share the giveaway with some friends on Instagram.
And, in the comments on the giveaway video, tell us about your favorite sleep set up on the river.  Add pics if you want.  

HOW WINNER IS SELECTED
The sleep set up comment with the most likes will win all the goods!  
So make your comments rad and show us your set up.  

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Is it a reservoir in crisis or a river recovering?   In October of 2021 a crew of river scientist and river runners and this podcast traveled down Cataract Canyon to examine a retreating reservoir and a recovering river.  As Lake Powell dips below 30% of full, the Colorado River is cutting through the decades of reservoir sediment.  What is in the sediment?  On top of it?  What is next?

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RiversEdge West

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Pete Lefebvre
Dr Brenda Bowen
Dr Scott Hynek
Dr Cari Johnson
Dr Sasha Reed
Dr Jack Schmidt
 

LINKS
Returning Rapids
Cataract Canyon
Colorado River
Lake Powell
Center for Colorado River Studies
 

MEDIA
Salt Lake Tribune:  As Lake Powell shrinks, the Colorado River is coming back to life
New Yorker:  The Lost Canyon Under Lake Powell
Book:  Under White Sky
 

RIVER RADIUS PODCAST EPISODES
The Returning Rapids of Cataract Canyon 2021
The silty byproduct of Lake Powell
Recycling (river) water in Southern California
Southern California's Water, Yesterday & Tomorrow

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The Gila River and Gila Mountains of New Mexico have been home for Indigenous people for thousands of years, for colonial Spanish and Mexican people for hundreds of years, and now for all of those folks under the United States since 1912.  This river along with The San Francisco River and The Mimbres River were just nominated for Wild and Scenic River protection.  This is a river of families, lineages and gathering.  

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Nathan Newcomer

Guadalupe Cano

Patricia Cano

Michael Darrow

Simon Sotello III

US Senator Martin Heinrich

INFORMATION

Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

Gila Wilderness

Aldo Leopold Wilderness

New Mexico
The M.H. Dutch Salmon Greater Gila Wild and Scenic River Act  (several links at bottom of linked page)

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New Mexico Wild

Wildgilariver.org

ORGANIZATION OPPOSED TO LEGISLATION

Heritage Waters

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GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS

Mogollon Rim

Chihuahuan Desert

Sonoran Desert

Colorado Plateau

Basin and Range

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Dry rivers and deserts full of irrigated nut trees. Jacob Morrisons new film, “The River's End: California’s New Water War” leans into the questions about agriculture and how rivers can be maintained. In this interview, we delve into some of the topics in the film.

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RIVER RADIUS PODCAST EPISODES ON CALIFORNIA WATER

Ep. 27  "Southern California's Water, Yesterday & Tomorrow"
Ep. 26  "Recycling (river) Water in Southern California"
Ep. 16  "Mile 0 Sacramento River Source to Sea"
Ep. 18  "Mile 153 Sacramento Source to Sea"
Ep. 20  "Pacific Ocean takeout for SacSource2Sea"

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Rafael Gallo began kayaking at the University of Tennessee in the 1970s, founded Rios Tropicales in Costa Rica in the 1985, prevented the Rio Pacuare from being dammed, was inducted into the International Whitewater Hall of Fame in 2009, taught ex-Columbian FARC soldiers to become river guides in 2018, was known and respected across the globe for his river work, and during his life helped plant nearly 31,000 trees, all to protect and support rivers.  In March of 2021, he passed away.  This episode is a conversation with his son, and his personal assistant/biographer about his life and his way.  

RAFA:  RIVERS & FORESTS ALLIANCE

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ABOUT RAFAEL GALLO

A tribute to Rafael Gallo in Paddler Magazine

Ex-FARC Guerrillas in Columbia train to be Raft Guides

Rivers that build peace:  Rafting with ex-combatants in Columbia

Navigating Rough Waters with Rafael Gallo in Costa Rica

Honoring Rafael Gallo:  Go Fund Me Launched for RAFA, IWHOF, and IRF

International Whitewater Hall of Fame

Rios Tropicales

International Rafting Federation

RIVER BOOK by RAFAEL GALLO

The Rivers of Costa Rica

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River shuttles are as important to a river trip as the boat.  And sometimes shuttles are easy and when they aren’t easy, they can be horrible.  This episode is a set of four stories from The River Radius listeners about their sh!%%y shuttle experiences.  

RIVERS FROM THIS EPISODE

Usumacinta River, Mexico

Green River, Utah

New River, West Virginia

Gauley River, West Virginia

Gauley Fest

Rio Grande River, Texas

Colorado River, Grand Canyon, Arizona

Mancos River, Colorado

John Day River, Oregon

Deschutes River, Oregon

Feather River, California

Feather Fest

French Broad River, North Carolina
 

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