Classes
Here at Frozen Paddler we really believe in cross training, and blending skills as insurance to be able to pull off any trip. We try to demonstrate these skills when we do trips, but we do offer classes on different classes to help you round out your own bag of tricks. Solo classes or a group of friends can be serviced, and will be priced accordingly.

Frozen Paddler Class Syllabus

Sea Kayaking Level 1

  • Boat and equipment choices
  • Paddle stroke techniques
  • Boat leans
  • High and low braces
  • Wet exits
  • Assisted and self rescues

Canoe Level 1

  • Boat and equipment choices
  • Safety
  • Paddle stroke techniques
  • River reading
  • Rescue techniques
  • Currents and hazards

Map and Compass

The Map

  • Scale
  • Descriptions
  • Details
  • Directions
  • Distance
  • Designations

The Compass

  • Development
  • Parts of the Orienteering Compass
  • ABC of compass use
  • Landmark
  • Intermediate landmark
  • Back bearing

Map and Compass Together

  • Tools used
  • Declination
  • Orient Map
  • Magnetic lines
  • Traveling toward a baseline
  • Deliberate error
  • Getting around obstacles
  • Triangulation

Measuring Distances From Map To Field

  • Paces
  • Time

Outdoor Cooking

  • Stoves, types, fuels
  • Other cooking equipment
  • Cooking hints
  • Rationing of food, amounts
  • Nutrition
  • Packing food to go
  • Foraging
  • Water, making it safe and liquid (winter time)
  • Food drying

When Nature Calls

  • How to deal with human wastes in the wild
  • Enteric pathogens-Giardia Lamblia and company
  • Prevention
  • The hole
  • Tricks of the trade

Winter Skills

  • Comfort below freezing
  • Equipment
  • Nutrition and hydration
  • Hazards
  • Getting around
  • Snow caves
  • Avalanche awareness
  • Snow structure

These are the classes we offer at this time. Some of the skills offered in the different courses cross over into each other, the way wilderness skills do. Tell us about an idea or skill you would like more information about. We customize trips, we could customize classes.

" The lesson lies in learning
and by teaching I'll be taught.
For there's nothing hidden anywhere,
it's all there to be sought."
Keith Reed

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