Waves and Leaves

Have you ever thought about what you would do if you were out on a paddling or hiking trip and suddenly things didn’t go as well as planned?

Some time ago, Zoar Outdoor and web how-to site, Expert Village, collaborated on a series of instructional kayak videos. Here are a few of them.

“Water draws heat from the body 25 times faster than air… causing a substantial loss of strength, coordination, and judgment rather quickly. All cold-weather paddlers should select the gear needed for the insulation required to stay warm.” – Charlie Walbridge, excerpt from Whitewater Rescue Manual

For this Staff Spotlight, we caught up with Emily Cross, a zip line guide, and asked her a few questions

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Many people who come up to zip with us wonder about the construction of the zip course. They stand on the platforms and look out at the long, paired cables that drape between each platform, and ask, ‘how in the world did those cables get up there?’ This fall, Deerfield Valley Canopy Tours replaced the old cables with new ones, which allows us a chance to peek into the process of setting up the zips.

The Deerfield River is an excellent example of a river under human control with 10 hydropower dams and a pumped storage facility that combine to produce nearly 700 megawatts of electricity at maximum capacity.