Sarah wrote: > I guess what I was trying to get at, not very successfully, was this: > > if a club has organizers/coordinators rather than trip leaders, in part > because the club doesn't want to be responsible or liable in the same > ways that a commercial guiding company would be, how much control does the > club have over what goes on in trips? Others have described the horrific dynamics of trying not to "regulate" group paddles when members of a club do not know each other well enough to know each other's capabilities. I think the bottom line is that somebody (usually the trip coordinator) will end up "responsible" for an uncooperative or weaker paddler on group paddling trips. What can the "coordinator" do -- abandon the poor sop? That means, on a defacto basis, someone becomes the fall guy -- no authority to decide if an individual can go, but the responsibility when things go sour. I would NEVER put myself in that position. I have buckets of experience leading trips on the snow (XC-skiing, climbing), and occasionally have been put in the "no-win" situation described above (long story). Now, I get really "agro" when someone tries to cajole me into "leading" a group whose composition I can not control. Not a chance. Life is too short. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Mar 05 1998 - 20:51:44 PST
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