The nice thing about first descents is that they can come in many forms, shapes, and sizes. A first descent does not have to be some crazy hard river in the middle of nowhere in some remote foreign country. It can be as simple as being on a river no one in your group has done before or finally checking out that creek in your backyard you’ve always wondered about. Whatever the situation is I have discovered, through trial and error, some pretty good ground rules that almost always apply when…
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