White Water Rafting

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Post May 26th, 2008, 12:43 pm

I went White Water Rafting this weekend. Holy crap it was fun!

http://www.bodydot.com/view/608/White-W ... River.html

Here are some photos and videos. The funny part was when we left, there were these cowboys that were herding cattle right in the middle of the street.

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Post May 26th, 2008, 12:43 pm

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Post May 26th, 2008, 1:51 pm

Give over,

I get breathless just thinking about the fun white water would be if only I could surf/swim.

My dream retirement home is by the ocean watching the frothy waves roll in and roll out like a Swish animation...ahahaahahahah. I think I should be an a Piscean...should I not? Instead of a Virgo.
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I will take a look and post back tomoz - thanks for sharing camperjohn!

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Post May 26th, 2008, 2:06 pm

I went about 5 years ago... fun as hell.

We went in West Virginia on the New River on a day full of violent thunderstorms and lots and lots of rain. Since it had been raining all day, the class 3 and class 4 rapids that we were supposed to go through were all class 4 and class 5 by the time we got to them.

The coolest part, however, was the fact that as we went down the river through a mountain range, it started storming pretty violently again, and we could hear the buzz, then the crack, of the lightning as it struck the mountains on both sides of us. Honestly, we couldn't have asked for a better day.

Also, there were about five rafts in our group, and our raft happened to be lead by the main guy in charge of everything, so our raft went first through everything, and the ones behind us went the same way or took a different path depending on our success or failure. More often than not, they went a different way. Wussies.

It was awesome. I definitely want to go again when I get the time.
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Post May 26th, 2008, 2:15 pm

lololol

I love watching the white water rides. We don't see enough water sport on tele...*angry

Maybe a video at YouTube lolol

You can't beat it - I just loooove white water.

I went to Newquay years ago for my honeymoon 'Trewarren Hotel' we watched the surfers there..what fun...watching them fall off the boards! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Post May 26th, 2008, 7:35 pm

I used to go yearly as a teen in PA at Ohiopyle. Man I miss it.
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Post May 26th, 2008, 7:50 pm

We went 2 years ago just outside glacier national park, that is tons of fun. We had a really good guide, he was a cool dude.
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Post May 26th, 2008, 10:59 pm

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We went 2 years ago just outside glacier national park


I have the vivid imagination...and to 'white water ride in a National park must have been awesome..I mean we have nothing in my actual locality to better that lololol I think the closest would be somewhere very remote in our lake district.

My son went on these school hols to learn water ride. You know the scenero? They are taught to rock climb, Absail, then they go in pretty fast water and have to free themselves upside down under water from the canoe. This was in the Brecon Beacons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brecon_Beacons) they were gone a week I re-call. Another holiday with the school was Belgium.



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Post May 26th, 2008, 11:04 pm

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I used to go yearly as a teen in PA at Ohiopyle. Man I miss it


Vids anyone?

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Post May 27th, 2008, 5:47 am

I don't have any of my own, but here's a few from the Ohiopyle website

http://www.ohiopyletradingpost.com/upprvidi.htm

I definitely know why camperjohn had fun. It's been 30 years for me and I still recall those memories. If you've never gone whitewater rafting, you have to do it at least once in your life.
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Post May 27th, 2008, 12:14 pm

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I definitely know why camperjohn had fun. It's been 30 years for me and I still recall those memories. If you've never gone whitewater rafting, you have to do it at least once in your life.


They are *thrilling to watch to the point of breathlessness so to actually take part must surely be the ultimate. I have only walked by the edge of the beach in a seaside town pretty late at night with the tide rolling in extremely fast and a comapanion alsmost throwing me in . Now that was awesome as the sea washed over me and wet me through...lmaooooooooooooo The water hits your face, you gasp for breath..but yet its enjoyable.

Boys, I envy you!

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Post May 28th, 2008, 1:00 pm

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AT/NO, the pages are gone but its ok I shall look at somewhere else.

They're still there ... I am looking at it right now ...
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Post May 28th, 2008, 1:23 pm

No righteous_trespasser,

Its not showing for me look:

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So I go and install the latest shockwave player and the latest Flashplayer but still...

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Post May 28th, 2008, 10:18 pm

Strange ... really strange ...
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Post May 29th, 2008, 7:48 am

I've never been (yet). The place to go around here is Hell's Canyon.
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Post May 29th, 2008, 10:52 am

Man I love white water rafting. I've been about 4 times or so on a couple of rivers in the Northwest including the Deschutes, the Snake, the Titan, and White Salmon.

Best one I think was the White Salmon in Idaho.
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