If you get the chance to take a white water rafting trip with a good guiding service, you should take it.
Any man overboards???
Good on you:smoking:
Since our guide was off the clock, we did our share of dicking around. There was a heated tournament of 'king of the front of the raft' and 'dodge the rock' and 'jump and pray you'll clear the rocks because this canyon isn't meant for cliff diving despite what you saw at casa bonita'. Since we packed a cooler of liquid refreshment we took our time. I was on the front right of my boat, which was equally awesome and pants-wetting. In the canyon there are sulfur springs along the river so we stopped and farted around there. Below the hot springs pool there is a large pipe that discharges unused water from the facility directly into the river. Since we weren't sober, we thought it wise to explore. That pipe went straight back towards the mountain for about a hundred yards, then opened up into a space the size of a small bathroom. It was pitch black and not at all as much fun as we anticipated, although the way out was fast as the pipe was lined with algae and it was like a water slide with a really bad landing zone of rocks and rocks.
Indeed, keep what's important dry.
I grabbed a stock photo but the river runs class 3-4. There are tons of tourists, I'm not even sure they allow these guided trips on more technical sections. Even though the trips are guided the rafters still have to paddle, which can complicate things. A guide can do a perfect job but if the paddlers don't paddle down the middle or tongue of the rapid, the raft could flip, and that's when things go bad. On our trip we had to work and paddle through the rapids, it wasn't a relaxing lazy river ride.
Too true, my son's friend would eat our cupboards bare of cereal, peanut butter, everything, because all he got for lunch all the time was Lobster.
