Timeline for How far above a waterfall should you be to safely cross?
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| Nov 23, 2016 at 16:19 | comment | added | Erik | @gerrit You know how us Yanks are with metric... I thought that was the case but I wanted to make sure it wasn't a typo. In the States I see meters and centimeters fairly often. I haven't seen decimeters used since high school. | |
| Nov 23, 2016 at 16:16 | comment | added | gerrit | @Erik Yes. 1 dm = 10 cm = 0.1 metre. | |
| Nov 23, 2016 at 16:14 | comment | added | Erik | @gerrit by "1 dm" did you mean decimeter aka 10 centimeters? | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 0:20 | comment | added | gerrit | 12 metre wide and 1 dm deep is pretty common in Scandinavia. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 22:42 | comment | added | Mark | Lightning Creek in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest is a good example -- I've crossed it, moving slowly, without the water overtopping my boots. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 22:36 | comment | added | ab2 | Where's that? 40 feet wide and 4 inches deep is not something I've ever seen. Rereading my answer, "and/or stream is shallow and slow" might cover your wide shallow river. But, I agree with your comment. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 22:25 | comment | added | Mark | At least where I hike, that's far too conservative. Crossing a river that's 40 feet wide and 4 inches deep is not uncommon, and you can usually hear waterfalls from a mile or more away. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 20:37 | history | answered | ab2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |