White Water Rafting

FastTrax

FastTrax

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This is something I have always wanted to do!

We have the sport right here, so maybe once hubby retires at the end of the year, we'll experience a taste of a little white water rafting.

Looks like a lot of fun.
 
We go every summer locally....


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That looks like so much fun.
We are near the Delaware river and took the kids rafting when they were small. It was in a very calm portion of the the river. We rented the raft for the day and ate out lunch on one of the small islands in the river.
We had a lot of fun but the Delaware can be treacherous at times. A lot of under currents and hidden rocks.
Each year many people who are excellent swimmers lose their lives because of that.
If I were much younger I'd love to try white water rafting.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
That looks like so much fun.
We are near the Delaware river and took the kids rafting when they were small. It was in a very calm portion of the the river. We rented the raft for the day and ate out lunch on one of the small islands in the river.
We had a lot of fun but the Delaware can be treacherous at times. A lot of under currents and hidden rocks.
Each year many people who are excellent swimmers lose their lives because of that.
If I were much younger I'd love to try white water rafting.
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The one we go to which is just a few miles from here is Man made... especially made for the Olympics a few years ago...it's small but good fun, and attached is a restaurant and open air viewing bar...

these next 2 photos are taken from the internet of our local rafting centre.. ( I have a lot somewhere I've taken myself, including the one above)



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https://www.visitleevalley.org.uk/whitewater
 
I've done:
The Stanislaus river (Class 3) twice (both before and after it was dammed.)
The south and middle forks of the American river (Class 3 and Class 4 respectively)
The Taiya river (Class 2) in Alaska

I'd love to do more. I'd like to do the Tuolumne and the Merced (the river that flows out of Yosemite Valley.
 
Never done it in a raft, never done it in a kayak, never done it in a boat, BUT I have done it in an inner tube. :)

Learned my chops on upper the Sacramento River for a summer, and have tubed many rivers in California ( last one was when I was 34 ), including this one:


I used a car inner tube. These look to "broad" to control well.
 
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