Re: [Paddlewise] where's the lead guide?

Amigh2_at_aol.com wrote:

> situation:  you are a guide and assistant guide, doing a classic *lead and
> sweep* on a night paddle with a tour group, and everyone is wearing a light.
>
> problem:  if everyone is wearing a light, how does the group distinguish the
> guide's boat and the assistant guide's boat from all other boats?
>
> strobes are not permissable.  chemical light sticks are not environmentally
> sound.
>
> has anyone encountered this situation and if so, how have you solved it?
> even if you haven't encountered it, do you have any suggestions?
>
>

My immediate reaction is to have the lead guide and assistants wear a light of a
different color.  colored lenses are available, or a colored krill type light
would work.  If colored lights are also not allowed then the lead and assistant
could wear two lights.  If close enough together (say six inches apart) the two
lights would appear as one to any power boat at a distance, but still be
discernible to members of the group out to about 150 yards.

Mike


--
    Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are
visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great
blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a
mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your
passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space.
Mark H Hunt


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