reading about the recent strainer rescue and thinking about previous snag incidents (kevlar skirt rims), I'm thinking it might be a good idea to put a short leash on my knife--I'm thinking that with rushing water, cold, stiff, fingers, panic--oops, just dropped my only chance to unsnag myself from this branch/rebar/rope/etc.
I know you should just not drop the damn thing, and I know that there is the bear claw thing w/ a hole in it (which was already discussed how they fall off, and I lost one so not gettin' another), but like everybody says, shit goes bad real fast on the water.
any thoughts?
anyway, seems like a short, 2-3 ft, easily breakable, securely bundled, string would be useful, but I don't think I've ever seen anything other than a rubber band (a la Mike Mathers) tethering anybody's knife.
In a situation like the recent duckier in salida, had it been somewhere not so near a lot of paddlers, and if the person had a knife but dropped it, that would suck real bad.
I'm glad the woman was rescued--kind of sheds a little light on the "'bout lost my life" discussion also, about selflessness in a real emergency.
Jay
I know you should just not drop the damn thing, and I know that there is the bear claw thing w/ a hole in it (which was already discussed how they fall off, and I lost one so not gettin' another), but like everybody says, shit goes bad real fast on the water.
any thoughts?
anyway, seems like a short, 2-3 ft, easily breakable, securely bundled, string would be useful, but I don't think I've ever seen anything other than a rubber band (a la Mike Mathers) tethering anybody's knife.
In a situation like the recent duckier in salida, had it been somewhere not so near a lot of paddlers, and if the person had a knife but dropped it, that would suck real bad.
I'm glad the woman was rescued--kind of sheds a little light on the "'bout lost my life" discussion also, about selflessness in a real emergency.
Jay