Remember to have a waist leash or a quick release leash when paddling in moving water.

My paddleboard spiraled while my cousins quickly, unintentionally, shot down the river. I hit a branch, fell off my paddleboard, my life vest inflated, and there I was — stuck. The bank was too steep to climb and there was no way I was making it back up the river with the vor…
The Driftless and the River Towns That Made Me
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Melissa Rock
Ryan Chin
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Jul 31, 2024
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Remember to have a waist leash or a quick release leash when paddling in moving water. Some recent drownings on rivers here in OR have been from people paddling in current with an ankle leash.
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Written by Ryan Chin
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Author of The Big Head Diaries, stories of a lab from NZ, and Without Rain, a multimedia memoir. Email:thechinproject@gmail.com
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