themightykobold says:
The tying rope thing I was thinking about was send one person over that had high jump (anchor 1), tie rope to them and someone on the far end (anchor 2), have everyone cross over one at a time, and then maybe have anchor 1 go back (if anchor 2 is just strong and not a jumper), have someone else hold the rope on the far bank (anchor 3) with anchor 1, let anchor 2 cross, tie rope to anchor 1 in case he falls in on final crossing, and then have anchor 1 jump accross one last time.
Put more simply, couldn't we just have two anchors, holding a taught rope which the others use to steady them as they cross.
Blackstork - how far across is the whole canal thing, at the point of route 5 (the one with all the 1s and 2s)? Could for example Ronna jump across the whole thing with one end of the rope and then hold it whilst the rest of us jump across, with the rope as a kind of handrail?
Even if someone can't get all the way across, are there widish points in the middle where anchors could stand?