Wednesday 10 July 2024

How To Survive A Week At Keeners: By Conall Plunkett

 Speech Monday.Get ready after your arrival. Meet the instructors. Meet the other keeners there. Find your cabin and room. Prepare for your speech. Get your rental equipment if you have it. Get a tour of Keenerville. Leave for dinner at Wilderness Tours. Present a speech.

Knots Tuesday.
Wake up and make breakfast. Get your paddling clothes on. Have a small meeting. Get your gear on. Run the middle channel after some basic practice. Get dinner. Learn some knots with Greg.

Racing Wednesday.
Wake up and make breakfast. Get paddling clothes on. Paddle again. Do some racing as a timed race. Get dinner. Return to camp.

Beat down Thursday.
Wake up ready for a beat down! Make food. Get paddling clothes on. Have a meeting. Get on the water. Run the main channel and maybe surf Phil's. Return to camp. Have dinner. Watch footage of the day.

Competition Friday.
Wake up and make breakfast. Get paddling clothes on. Have a meeting. Get on the water. Go to Angel's Kiss and have a freestyle competition. Continue down. Go to camp. Get dinner. Return and score points from the competition. Determine a winner. Give out the racing, freestyle, and beat down ribbons.

Saturday.
Wake up and make food. If you have Wilderness First Aid, begin that. If you don't get two others, including one senior Keener, and run the river. Have dinner brought to camp.

Sunday.
The same as Saturday. 

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