Re: [Paddlewise] Leader Requirements

On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Chuck Holst wrote:

>> >> >>
Just to keep things moving along, here is another question: Does your
paddling club have any formal requirements for leaders in terms of skill,
experience, etc., or can anyone lead a club trip who volunteers? If the
club has leader requirements, what are they? What about leader training? 
>> >> >> >>

our club has no "trip leaders" anymore, just "trip coordinators" ;-)
but what we do, is all those interested in leading/coordinating trips, we
have a pot luck dinner, and bring out, basically a peg board, with all
the weekends for thefirst part of the year, then we get volunteers to 
coordinate each of them. most of these folks have run the section before,
and many of these are the same folks year after year... usually we have
20-30 folks show up, and we get a trip or two every weekend from april to
september. we shoot for one easy, [class II or less] and one hard, 
class III+ each weekend.

this year may be difficult, as colorado is having a very dry winter, and
we're below average on snow pack. may be a short season this year.

mark

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