Great video I was going to make a video on this but now I see there’s no need. Nailed it!

Thanks Cody. I'm almost always doing a wheelie down the river on my multiday trips if I don't have a passenger. I'm going to try to shove the frame forward next summer.

Good job getting the spare loaded up quickly. :)

That 110L, or the 140L, have been nice to fit longer items, like cots, and keeping them dry.

I️ use watershed for my cold stuff, like leggings, puffy jackets and such. I️ use regular fry bags for other things, but I️ have been known to do the dry bag in the dry bag thing, for “flippy” days.

Yea the watershed bags are about all I use these days. I do the semi/potentially wet stuff in its own bag too away from clothes and sleeping bags.

I agree, stop by and say hi as you launch on the Rogue

Great video! You need to post links to the products you’re recommending. Take my money!!

Thanks for the video, do you know where they sell that bleach container? I've had a few other containers fail on trips (always at the cap).

Great video. A video on grey water disposal would be great for folks who unaware of LNT.

Im very interested in your bleach video and learning about the little container with measure. Makes sense and no leaking beach is crucial. We got a dish dryer 2 years ago- a far cry from my dirtbag/cook everything with my knife river days. Great video.

Come run the McCloud with us October 4th, then the Pit October 5th and 6th. Fun times, pretty close to you.

Any thoughts about Dawn soap? It works great, but what about camp suds or similar, more 'biodegradable' options?

amazing ~ have a good one- Private!🙂

I wonder if the Ducky adds any risk of contamination with BPA?

And here I've been just licking my plate...

Food safety courses are less than $10. It is worth it to have someone on a trip to have taken one. Lots of good information just in general that can be used in life.

I just follow the food with tea in the vessel and call it clean. I backpacked before I paddled so keep things minimal. But this may be useful if companions decide to get fancy.

How is your spare oar rigged? Looked like it was only secured in one location. I’m curious if it is solidly secured on the side of the boat, because that was an incredibly quick change. I may need to rethink my setup.

Some thoughts: Re Dawn - don't look at the cap when flipping the top, especially if you've gone up in elevation from the last time it was opened. I once got a gob of dried-up Dawn blown into my eye at a campsite outside Trinidad, CO, which is about 400 feet higher in elevation than Colorado Springs, our previous stop. Even after much eye-washing, it took several days for my vision to return to its unclouded, un-soaped state! Point that thing a safe direction! Otherwise, pound for pound and dollar for dollar, Dawn is the best readily available dish soap for camping. Scraping dishes with a rubber spatula or other suitable tool prior to your pre-wash can help keep the water cleaner for longer, which translates into keeping the wash water soapier for longer (less transfer of gunk from the pre-wash into the wash water). Either burn the scrapings in your camp fire to decease the olfactory signature (in bear country), or put them in a cat-hole sump. Pots/pans can have the first pre-wash done right inside them - just simmer some soapy water in them (lid on heats faster, but is more likely to boil over), followed by a light scraping, before hitting the pre-wash bucket. This can also cut down on the amount of crud in the pre-wash, but it does use a bit more fuel. I even do this pot simmering at home when washing up. If cooking over an open fire, you can try pre-smearing some soap on the outside of the pots to help get the soot off at clean-up time; your mileage may vary. The soot is mostly just a mess, and may actually help with heat transfer (high absorbtivity of radiant energy) if not too thick/fluffy. But, it gets everywhere and makes a mess. Soot is also a sign that you don't have very clean combustion, which means wasted fuel. Even if fuel supply is virtually endless, it still takes time and effort to collect, and to keep feeding the fire, and there are usually better things for the kitchen crew to be doing than schlepping extra firewood. To cut down on the amount of water to be heated, you can shift buckets to the user's right: i.e. the dirty pre-wash gets dumped in the sump; the old wash water becomes the new pre-wash water; the old rinse water becomes the new wash water (add soap and some hot water as needed); and the rinse water gets replaced with new warm/hot water from your stove top or campfire. This can save time and fuel. When I was in Boy Scouts, we carried HTH swimming pool chlorination tablets for making the sanitizer bath. They pack easily (keep them dry, of course), and are inexpensive and readily available. Crushing 1/2 a tablet into the sanitizer tub with a pair of pot pliers did the trick. This same system will work when cabin camping or at deer camp with limited facilities just as well as on rafting trips. Good video of the basics. Thanks for the reminder of good times on KP duty in wild and beautiful places!

What is your opinion of Phish and Railroad Earth?

I've started using stainless steel restaurant serving pans as my chick-e pails. They stack into each other nicely and are rectangular so they fit into my dry box really well. They come in all different sizes, but I use the 1/2 size that are 6" deep and they seem to be perfect for groups up to 12 people. I would probably go with a larger one, maybe 2/3 size for big groups. I like them because they are stainless and don't have the galvanized coating on them.

I definitely agree with all your statements, but I love the collapsible bags for space saving. I do find it humorous that you're concerned about the BPA from the plastic but not the galvanized coating on the chicky pails. 🤷

Nice video Cody! Definitely a less thought out area of my kitchen set-up, looking forward to the next one.

Love your videos. I knows it go time right now, but would you consider making rigging videos during the off season? There are many older videos out there but you seem to be up on the latest and I like what I see in your videos. If you could explain your choices and the way you rig, that would be awesome. Also, congrats on 1k!

Did Private Pyle really just call dat NRS joint, "The Wal-Mart Special" ? Shots fired!

Really nice video. I’ve always gone right at the alligator rock in Wildcat. I love the move to catch the eddy below the island then getting over left. I am letting my daughter row the Rogue for her first time this week. Will give it a shot. Wildcat makes me almost as nervous as Blossom

First off - I am so glad I found your channel. Great stuff, great energy. I recently was on the MFS and a friend had the go rafting app. I was impressed. However, I disagree with the idea of an app replacing a map. When I am running a new river, I pay meticulous attention to my surroundings and am constantly matching contour lines, river bends, etc to what I am seeing. Doing this allows one to get to know the river. It reminds me a bit of google maps and driving. When people always rely on this they are hopelessly lost without it, and pay no attention to their surroundings. I was the TL on MFS last month and have run it several times. About 1/4 mile above Devil’s Tooth my buddy shouted out “hey the app says we are coming up on House of Rocks”. I knew this wasn’t true as Devil’s Tooth is above that. Still, it made me doubt what I was seeing on the map and my memory. We ended up wasting a lot of time stopping early to scout in the wrong place. All that said, I plan to buy it. However, it will be an adjunct to an actual map Sorry for the rant

I think that the way to do it except let your oars drop, blades back handles forward, so no one gets speared.

It doesn’t look like NRS is making clips anymore - they’re gone from the NRS website and resellers are all out of stock, including Clavey

Watched two people fry their IPhones in the water today

Just used a top for the first time on the lower Salmon. It was really nice to have the sun off me, my passengers, and the cooler. It was especially nice when it absolutely down poured, although I was a little worried about lightening. It seemed to hold up to the upriver winds typical of that run, without making it much worse to paddle against it.

Hey Cody. It looks like if you let go of your oars (didn't ship), the oar would rip through and mangle the biminy frame. Is that correct? Or did you mount it far enough ahead so that doesn't happen?

It is really nice being able to glance at my phone and know exactly where I'm at and what is coming up. I've had many situations where my fellow boaters looking at paper maps are not sure where we are or think we're in a different place than we actually are. And if you want more adventuring, just don't look...that's always an option too. Not for everyone, but I enjoy adding my own places of interest and notes to make my own GPX file using an app like Caltopo especially since GoRafting or Paddleways don't yet have every river available.

Love it. Thanks for the info

I don't doubt that the phone maps are vastly superior in terms of functionality. Knowing exactly where you are without having to use terrain association is a major benefit. All that being said.... when I'm on a multiday the last thing I want to look at is my phone. I look at that screen 4 hours a day in my normal life. River time is for getting away from that thing.

Thank you for the review!!

You had ready access to that spare oar, I like.

you would be a fool to throw away your paper maps. I don't know anything about rafting Maps, but the day the power goes out and the grid goes down, you'll be crying.

At 2:06 you mean river left.

Thanks Cody. I wish Go Rafting had more rivers, like the Main Salmon. BTW, I really like your blue water drop logo that morphs to the mountains/rivers. Way cool!

airplane drop of supplies at this camp?

@privatewhitewater Hey Cody, do you have suggestions for apps to use?

Rafting rules to live by: 1. ALWAYS keep your boat pointed downstream 2. ALWAYS back row to slow everything down 3. ALWAYS point your boat at hazards and pull away 4. ALWAYS “take the tongue”

thanks for the insight. Amazing to score two permits to run this river

lucky ducky.

Ordinarily, shipping forward works ... except in the middle chute. Throwing them forward (as they ended up for you) always seems to work.

Do you recall water level at GP?

great video man, cool footage. always wondered what the Illinois was like, only rafted the lower rogue

Any experience freezing water jugs instead of using blocked ice? 2 Scepter10L jugs fit well in the bottom of my Canyon Prospector along with 2 blocks of ice. I can’t see any draw backs, but thought I’d reach out to a pro! The pluses are: no water in the cooler, reusable, and you also have something cold to drink toward the end of the trip!