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Kayaking upstream can be difficult but the good news is that it can be done. It can also offer you a more challenging workout to boost your upper body strength and perfect your paddling technique. First, learn the basics of paddling. The river gauges will tell you how fast the river is flowing. An average kayaker can travel around 3 miles per hour with a maximum speed of around 5 or 6 miles per hour in average conditions, so keep that in mind when you read the river.
There are several portions of a river that can either be useful or a hindrance to paddling upstream. Joe Joe 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. How wide is the river How deep is the river How fast is the river Is the riverbed flat like in canals or is it a natural riverbed with inconsistencies like large rocks etc.
Weather conditions e. Riverbed gets deeper - this will slow down the river, since the same amount of water has more space to flow. Riverbed gets shallow - this will speed up the river, because there's less space for the same amount of water to flow, you can identify those spots by the "mushrooms" the water will build here. If the riverbed falls back down again like in my scribble watch out because there might be a whirl under the surface which will feel like something is sucking your paddle down.
Flat riverbed - not much surprises here, those are the parts where you can eat your lunch etc. Large Stones etc. Now more details for your question "how to travel upstream" At the outer side of curves you'll have the current with you, this is very counterintuitive, as you see you'll have to change the side of the river from time to time, more about this topic later on.
Feel free to correct me. Improve this answer. Jeredepp Jeredepp 3, 16 16 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. These are main things that you would do. For most flow: Paddle upstream: What you'll do most of the time when there isn't much flow.
Ferry-gliding is a way of crossing flow by using it's force to push you across, here's a diagram: And here's what a river looks like. Below: For Rapids big and small : Poling: This is moving the boat by means of a long pole about 4 metres long, normally kept in two screw-together parts in the boat. Video Portaging : I'm afraid that sometimes you might have to get out and walk, lift, drag and curse at the boat until you get it where you want it. Niall Niall 1, 12 12 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges.
Assuming you're a little more modern and have a 16 or so foot boat with two paddlers, you get upriver by: paddling somewhat harder than you do on flatwater choosing a river that doesn't flow at you too hard lining up stubborn sections where you can't outpaddle the current portaging up sections that you probably could have run downstream Most rivers are not THAT much harder to go up than down.
Kate Gregory Kate Gregory Check the river gauge nearest to where you will paddle to determine what speed the river is flowing. While your paddling speed depends on your strength, endurance and size of your craft, most people paddle at a maximum of 5 or 6 mph. That's not to say you won't make it upstream if the river is flowing faster than you can paddle. You'll just have to be clever about it.
If the river gauge says the water flow is 5 mph, you'll find areas of water in the river that are moving much slower than this. Stay along the shoreline, especially on the inside of the turns to find the slowest current. Don't paddle under low hanging trees or near pileups of brush where the current could trap you.
Wide stretches of river move slower than narrow stretches, where the narrowing of the channel creates higher pressure as the water squeezes through the tight space.
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