In kayakers’ slang, a park and play is a part of a river where you park your vehicle closer to a river and enter the water to paddle around a particular water feature, then paddle back to your launch spot rather than continue downstream. If you make a wet exit, you end up in the water. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Park and Play”
Another bit of rafting slang, park and play.
Is this like park and bark?
What upper singers do?
Right, where they stand there and just park themselves and start singing.
Park and play. I don’t know what that is.
A park and play in rafting is an area where you can get on the river, access a couple of fun river features, and then take out without traveling very far downstream.
Oh, so you don’t have to worry about the whole pickup thing.
Right.
Who’s going to get stuck driving the car and everyone else has the fun on the river?
Exactly.
And if you have a wet exit, that means you fell in.
Get out that way.
Hey, that’s me.
877-929-9673.

