1. Columbia River Kayaking (CRK) will utilize on-line or phone reservation systems to pre-pay and limit interactions as much as possible.
- Participants will sign, scan and send in waivers electronically before arrival whenever feasible. If they have not done so, paper waivers may be used.
- When participants arrive, each household may choose an area on the benches outside the kayak shop to stage their gear that is at least 6 feet from other households’ areas. Guides may select and bring out personal flotation device (PFD), spray skirt, pump, paddle, and any optional additional equipment to each participant. Guides will demonstrate how gear is fitted so that participants may correctly put on and adjust PFD and spray skirt.
- Guide will select kayaks for each participant and instruct on how to adjust foot pedals. If the guide needs to make any adjustments or repairs to the kayak, he or she will let the participant get out first if distancing is requested before the guide works on it.
- It may occur that only one group at a time will be permitted to get outfitted and launch in a single location.
- Guides will regularly sanitize countertops, hand rails, door knobs, and other common surfaces. Hand sanitizer will be available for staff and clients on a table just outside the kayak shop door entrance.
- When Columbia River Kayaking one-way programs are booked requiring guides to shuttle participants, driver and riders may choose whether or not to wear a mask.
- While paddling, participants from different households may choose to maintain a distance of six feet. Exceptions: A. If a participant capsizes, a guide is needed to help a participant back into a kayak. A guide may need to perform an emergency repair on a kayak on the water. The guide can choose to put on a mask before assisting the participant unless conditions are too rough to do so safely or the extra time taken to do so would further endanger the participant.
- All participant PFD’s, spray skirts, and spray jackets and paddles will be washed on a regular schedule, or disinfected should the need arise. Equipment that is disinfected will be treated with approved solution and left to hang in a designated area of the kayak shop for 24 hours before put back into use by another participant.
- After the program each kayak will be sprayed down with a hose nozzle and vacuumed out. If a kayak needs to be disinfected it will be sprayed down with CDC-approved disinfectant prior to subsequent use.
- Participants must cancel if they have a fever, cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, muscle aches, new loss of taste or smell, positive rapid test, or known exposure to someone who is sick. They can reschedule with no penalty when they are feeling better and any CDC recommended self-quarantine period has ended.
- At the end of each program, participants will be requested to report back to CRK if they have developed any Covid-19 symptoms within 72 hours after the program. If they have, CRK will follow up by reporting to local health authorities.
- Columbia River Kayaking will keep up-to-date on all changes issued by the Office of the Governor, the Department of Labor & Industries, and the Department of Health.
COVID-19 is primarily transmitted through expiration (breathing out) of a sick person and those droplets getting inhaled by a healthy person. The next most likely route of transmission is touching something that had infected material on it and transferring that into the eyes, nose or mouth. Unfortunately, a person may have the disease, feel well, and transmit it to others, all before they show any symptoms. To prevent transmission the recommendations are to wash hands frequently, ideally with soap and water but at least with 60% alcohol hand sanitizer; wear face coverings (to reduce the risk of transmission from you to a healthy person); stay home when sick; cover coughs and sneezes; social distance (staying 6 feet away from people); work from home where possible; frequently sanitize commonly touched surfaces; and health screen employees and visitors when they come to a workplace.
