Pic of me almost drowning!!!

[Whispering Winds]

My dad and BIL years ago rode the small (teeny compared to this!) rapids in Missouri, and the canoe in front of them flipped with two guys, one of which had a pipe in his mouth. When they righted, he still had that pipe clenched in his teeth. One of the funniest memories of my childhood.

 

[redhen]

What happens if the boat doesnt right itself?? Are you stuck under water?

 

[debilorrah]

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Not under, on top and you just lay back and let it take you down river a ways til you can meet up with the boat. White water rafting is a total rush. They have one rapid on that river called The Widowmaker.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

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That's actually the guide yelling at us like CRAZY so we don't die!

 

[redhen]

Crazy! Wont catch my sissy hiney doing that anytime soon...

You can drown in just a tablespoon of water, Ya know...

 

[coloradochick]

Wow Rob, looks like you were having tons of fun there....NOT! I'm sure most of it was fun but yikes I WOULD have drowned for sure

Glad you made through

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

It was pretty crazy. Water levels (and therefore speed and roughness of the river) were really high. There were a lot of points where the guide docked the boat to the side of the river to check ahead to see if he felt it was "safe" for us to continue.

The water really was super freezing. That was almost more of a detourant from falling in than death. Our feet were in shoes, but the bottom of the boat always had at least 3 inches of freezing water in it the whole time so our feet were all frozen.

 

[ChooksChick]

Um, I'm a waterskiing kind of girl, not a freezing-gulping-can't-breathe-paddle-or-die kind of girl. In fact, that may be close to my idea of Heck.

If it were warm, I might love it...but not cold!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

I don't like cold at all! That's why I wear a wet suit when wakeboarding in March:

 

[terrilhb]

WOW. I love whitewater rafting. Been and can not wait to do it again. Love your pictures. At 1st I thought oh no.