[rustbucket]

When one is scouting downstream obstructions, sometimes it is necessary to stand.

Speaking as a long time white water canoer and canoe camper, you are exactly right.

[Romulus]

Thank you. I have done a little (and I do mean little) class II paddling and canoe camping myself. Got back from a four-day trip in FL just two weeks ago. No white water, but plenty of pull-overs, on a very remote and wild river. Yes, there were gators.