How to Climb Back Into A Raft
This article originally appeared in the Summer/Fall 2012 issue of Rapid magazine. Download our free iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch App or Android App or read it here.
So you find yourself out of the raft and in the river. Getting back in ASAP is almost always your first priority. If the raft is upright and somebody is still inside, he or she can just haul you in, but climbing back in on your own is more of a challenge.
If the raft is upright, grab the side perimeter line on either side of a D-ring. Trick #1: push out with straight arms and kick your feet to get them to the surface. Don’t try to climb in until your body and feet are at the surface and your arms are extended. Then, with strong kicks and a swift pull, travel forward and up—you need momentum to get your upper body over the tube.
Trick #2 is to turn your forward pull into a downward push, keeping your hands on the line until you are straight armed again, wrapping your upper body over the tube. Only then do you reach into the raft for a new handhold, likely grabbing a cross tube or the raft frame. Strong kicks this whole time keep you from stalling halfway.
With a flipped raft, your approach is different. The trick is to work from the end where the floor angles down into the water like a ramp, using the floor lace as a handhold. Be warned: the hold isn’t great. Once you’ve climbed onto the bottom your job is to flip the raft over, but that’s another story.
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