Way back in my twenties I went on a whitewater raft trip with a group down the Colorado River. This was a guided tour for a bunch of inexperienced visitors to the area. We had a guide in the back of the raft, and he would holler out orders so we knew when to row and when not to. Looking back, it was kind of like a slave ship from old Roman times, and we were the slaves.
Row harder! Harder!
Row right!
Now left!
Harder!
We hit some pretty good whitewater, and the guide would point out big features in the river when he wasn’t yelling at us. One such feature he called Dinosaur Hole. It was a roiling hydraulic in the middle of the river and spit out water high in the air where it came bursting to the surface. It was to be avoided.
We were many groups going down the river, and one outfit had a different approach. In the middle of the raft sat a very muscular fellow, an oar in each hand. The passengers were just along for the ride—had no say in how the raft made its way down the river. This other raft with the muscular fellow drew my interest as I saw he was headed straight for Dinosaur Hole. Hmm…he must have a plan, I thought. Probably not his first time. As the raft entered the violent water, it was no longer controllable. The muscular fellow stopped rowing, since there was no water for his oars to dip into. The raft stood straight up on its nose, tossing every last passenger into the Colorado. They were flung out like rag dolls. As far as I know, no one was seriously hurt, and there were so many other groups in that section that the other rafts picked the passengers out of the water as they came down the river. Our ride was exciting, but not like theirs.
As someone else posted, I also did a section of the New River in West Virginia, and that was a lot of fun. We were on a guided tour, and the guide would motion us to stop at the river’s edge to let us know what was coming, and how to deal with it. Then we’d do the best we could, but would mostly go spinning crazily down the river and try to keep the raft from hitting the really big rocks.
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