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Corbett's ratings were badly inflated

Delete this post Submitted by otw on 13/Aug/2015 in reply to Re: Just remember that Corbett's ratings of posted by Hendrik on 10/Aug/2015
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when the books were written. What he routinely called Class IV were barely Class IIIs to the rest of us.

In part this was due to the way he paddled--his techniques, etc were antiquated in the 70s. He didn't have float bags and had no concept of breaking rapids into pieces by catching eddies.

Still, his guide books got us to many rivers--you just didn't rely on them on the river.

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