Hillary Outdoors Staff Training

Start Date                           16/1/2017
Duration                             5 Days
Activity                               Leave no trace, kayaking, canyoning
Weather/Conditions          Fine summer weather
Region                                Ruapehu
Personal/Instructional      Instructional/student
Role                                     Instructor/student
Employer                            Hillary Outdoors
Group                                  Instructional staff
Number in Group              16+
Group Details                   
Aditional Information      

Story
Day 1/2
Leave no trace educators course run by Graeme Swift and Chris North.
Theory AM, walked to the pumice caves then to club med in the PM, next day walked out with lessons presented on the way.
Day 3
Maverik Training day
Tongariro river, Red hut to stag pool
25 cumecs
Testing out how the new Mavericks (two person inflatable kayaks) perform. We stopped in at the trout centre along the way.
Day 4
Flat water training with Matt Bennett, focusing on flat water progressions for students. Then River session on the Tongariro in the afternoon working on personal skills.
Day 5
Education stuff with Bridget in the morning
Upper Mangatepopo training trip in the afternoon.Normal water levels. We split into 2 groups, Kieran leading one and me running the other, about seven people in each group. Good discussions were had about safe and not so safe methods and places to go/be. The burly slide into the big pool was decided to be a not quite a goer, the slide into the pool with the hand line worked well and the track to the big jump still needs benching.