Whitewater
Portaging without ego
Walking around a rapid is the most consistently underused safety tool on any river, and the reason is entirely social.
Topic
decision making
Every Extreme Sports Adventures article tagged decision making — 5 pieces across 2 sections.
Risk & Rescue
Group size and the quality of the decisions you make
A larger group has more resources for a rescue and, reliably, makes worse decisions about avoiding one. The trade-off is real and worth planning around.
Risk & Rescue
Turning around: the skill nobody puts on their profile
Every experienced mountain person has a collection of days they walked away from. That collection, not the summit list, is what makes them experienced.
Whitewater
Scouting a rapid honestly, which is harder than it sounds
Getting out to look at a rapid is the easy part. Looking at it without your desire to run it doing most of the analysis is the difficult part.
Risk & Rescue
The heuristic traps that get experienced people killed
Accident reports are full of competent, well-equipped, well-trained people who walked into obvious hazard. The pattern is not ignorance. It is a small set of mental shortcuts that work everywhere except here.