Right, back what did this again is my friend, Dr. Rob Scanlon, who is going to talk to us about stream

crossings.

Dr. Rob Scanlon, welcome back.

Thanks so much for having me on again.

So crossing a stream, how hard could that be?

All depends?

Can you just like walk across?

Aren't there bridges out there?

Am there bridges at every stream crossing

when we're out there in the woods?

Right.

Yeah, there's plenty of, yeah, there are plenty of places

where they've had this thought already you know, already done and they have bridges across or, you know, natural bridges, what have you. But then there's lots of places on the PCT and other other spots that it's all up to you.

And the time of year and the conditions

and the location mean everything

as far as what risk that poses to the hiker in crossing.

So I mean as far as you know drowning goes, 30% of all unintentional deaths in the National Park System in the US are from drowning.

Now this also includes multiple forms of recreation, there's swimming, there's boating, there's, you know,

all kinds of stuff, but for the hikers,

it is definitely the risk comes

when we are crossing these streams.

Now, the winter snowfall and the spring rains, all that runoff, you know, as the snow is melting and the

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