These weekends are intended for anyone who wants to improve their paddling and rescuing skills and to increase their knowledge of how to read and react to the river. Paddling skills taught are how to maneuver around obstacles. Also a paddling team will learn how to move from one side of the river to the other without moving downstream - a technique called ferrying. Rescuing skills are learned by paddlers by deliberately swamping and capsizing their canoes.
Paddlers learn how to self rescue and how to rescue others.
Everyone will practice canoe over canoe rescue and how to float in a river with and without a canoe and how to rescue swimmers with throw ropes. Each day's lessons are on two different four mile sections of the Bogue Chitto River which are located southwest of Tylertown, Mississippi. The stream offers a mix of currents from pools to swift water, obstacles such as sandstone islands and ledges, trees, stumps and gravel bars and water depths from ankle deep to deeper than a paddle can reach bottom. All of these features make for a very good outdoor classroom for river paddlers to increase their skills. The campgrounds have tents sites, showers, flush toilets and groves of trees.