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Posted by Kapiltranistapidal on March 18, 2008 at 10:39:16 pm EDT

Any forum members have experience with narrow canyon hiking involving lots of stream crossings? The local mountain streams vary from small in the late summer to relative torrents in springtime, yet some of them run up some nice canyons bounded by hard rock cliffs. There is often no way around, you're going to get wet - often up to your knees - and up to 20 crossings in a day are not unheard-of. Depending on the time of year, the multiple crossings can take on varying levels of safety.

Anyway, my main question is whether anyone knows of methods to get around the large number of boots-off/boots-on drills. I considered waders but wasn't sure about their usefullness with full pack (sounds like a bad idea but who knows). Just to answer the one safety question up front, no, I don't do this when the streams are in flood stage! :)

Any technical recommendations & tips are welcomed.
Jim

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• Re: Faster Stream Crossings? - Flatwaterkayak 22:31:18 04/02/2008
• Re: Faster Stream Crossings? - Tipi Walter 22:30:53 03/20/2008
• Re: Faster Stream Crossings? - LindsayJ 18:56:31 03/20/2008
• Re: Faster Stream Crossings? - Ebkent62 10:17:13 03/20/2008
• Re: Faster Stream Crossings? - f_klock 16:13:35 03/19/2008

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