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Having recently enjoyed a camping excursion with my son, where more then 2 inches of rain fell in just on half an hour, I realised there is a place for daredevil camping.
Enter WWTR, a sport where you pitch a tent on a river, with an inflatable mattress in the floor, then push off into the river at
dusk.
After a night of tossing and turning you wake up somewhere else on the river, ready for another exciting day of bungee jumping, kitesurfing and BASE jumping.
White Water Tent Raft Example
http://benkozel.com...photos/photo33.html
[jurist, Nov 08 2005]
Kon Tiki
http://www.google.c...search=&safe=images
[normzone, Nov 08 2005]
BASE jumping
http://hometown.aol.../base_fatality_list
[normzone, Nov 08 2005]
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base jumping on a river?
To be completely halfbaked, perhaps a parachute should be added in case the river happens to have some sizable waterfalls.
Out of interest, you have no objections to waking up out at sea do you? |
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While there's a lot to be said for sleeping on a gently rocking boat, I'm thinking that if you're sleeping when you go over the rapids, you'll be waking up with your lungs full of water, if at all. |
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In the middle of the ni-ight... |
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... to a river so de-ep... |
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We'll all end in the ocean... |
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you should be ashamed of yourelf, its too dangerous for kids... |
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Oh, killjoys! Sleep in SCUBA gear. Use a high buoyancy suit and you'll float well. It will also prevent mosquito bites. |
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Not too dangerous for today's kids....although my experience with sleeping on small craft is that it's not a very restful night. And I'm not too certain about the BASE jumping, either... |
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GLUB GLUB glub glub gl.... *BLURP* |
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Use a safety inflatable croissant if in danger. |
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Build one of balsa and bamboo. Name it Kon-Tiki. |
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This would be a lot more fun if it was done in jumping castles, I guess. Just a thought... |
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On many of the rivers I've rafted, you would either flip over or get stuck very soon if you weren't steering at all. Some deeper, flatter rivers without rapids would probably work for this. |
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But adding a computerised guidance system to it would take out all of the challenge. |
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I live in Arizona (USA) where most every place is a mountain, a rock, a cliff, a cactus, or a river bottom. We have no shortage of dry river bottoms. Dry river bottoms have a habit of becoming flooded when rain (sometimes miles away) fill them. |
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I went on many camping trips with Cub and Boy Scouts as a leader. They often did white water tent rafting but the raft part was typically ‘in’ their tent. It was their air mattress. Those wimps took air mattresses even on backpacking trips! |
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No mater how many times we warned them, they would decide in the middle of the night to move their tents to that nice sandy place ‘down there’. Apparently the lighting on the horizon and our lectures just didn’t stick. |
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Once, half the Cub Scout kids saw the older scouts move and followed. We woke up to kids yelling, crying, and laughing. There voices and flashlights dwindling as they floated away. No one was hurt. I took pictures of them drying out and intend to send them to their kids (very soon now). |
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[UnaBubba] Don’t listen to the killjoys! |
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[Shz] Excellent Kon-Tiki reference. I built a Kon-Tiki model out of balsa and bamboo when I was young. Sadly, I also had younger bothers who thought it should be set on fire and sailed into the sunset.
@#$%@$# |
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It rained in Mackay, north of here, last night. 25 inches of rain in 24 hours, including one hour this morning where 7 inches of rain fell. 35,000 people now perched on the high spots in the town. |
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The worst of it is that saltwater crocodiles are cruising around the streets of the city, in water 4 or 5 feet deep. |
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