{"id":33348,"date":"2024-07-12T15:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.nrs.com\/duct-tape\/?p=33348"},"modified":"2024-07-09T15:54:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T22:54:42","slug":"solo-plus-one-an-argument-for-not-sharing-permits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.nrs.com\/duct-tape\/2024\/07\/12\/solo-plus-one-an-argument-for-not-sharing-permits\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo Plus One: An Argument for Not Sharing Permits"},"content":{"rendered":"

The verdict is in\u2014one is<\/em> the loneliest number. Two is like\u2026100% less lonely. But three? Four? Five…Twenty? Here\u2019s where things can get sketchy. Yes, more people on a river trip does bring the loneliness quotient down, but additional people have the potential to bring the aggravation level up. More is not necessarily the merrier.<\/p>\n

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Anybody who has ever put together or tried to put together a \u201cbig\u201d group knows that the people in your party are sometimes the most unpredictable part of a river trip. After you win a permit everybody is \u201cin.\u201d But a few months later, maybe not.<\/p>\n

In the intervening months or weeks between the initial excitement and convivial glow of being invited on a river trip, life happens. Grandma is in the hospital, the kids have a travel soccer tournament that week, the wife ran off with her ex-boyfriend. So many things can happen. And then, if river conditions aren\u2019t optimal, the winnowing can get ruthless. The weather report sucks, the flows are too high or too low, there is too much smoke from a nearby fire<\/a>. A trip roster can absolutely collapse to the point where the trip gets canceled. I\u2019ve seen it all, heard it all\u2014more than once.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, the best bet is to take the one person who can\u2019t or won\u2019t flake.<\/p>\n