C Current Before Ego
Trip Planning

Trip Planning

A river trip starts with current conditions, local knowledge, and a group whose skills fit the route. These checklists organize the questions to settle before launch, including the useful but unpopular one: should today’s trip become breakfast somewhere dry instead?

Trip Planning

Whitewater Kayaking First-Trip Checklist

Plan a first whitewater kayaking trip through qualified instruction on Class I–II water on the International Scale of River Difficulty.

5 min · 2026-07-19