We had the BEST time! We laughed and bumped all along the Natahala River with guides from Rolling Thunder River Company.
Here's us looking optimistic and dry as we prepared to head into the river. As you can see, my brother and I foolishly took the front seat (aka: the drench zone).
The rapids were great! We hit some pretty crazy ones, but nothing too scary.
We had the added adventure of padding through a torrential downpour through most of the trip. It was so bad at some points, we couldn't keep the water out of our eyes to see where we were going!
You can see all the haze in the picture below. That's because the river water that drenched us was about 50-60 degrees. The rain was substantially warmer than that.
Here's James getting a lap full of freezing water. This happened a bit too often for my taste!
Here's Mindy enjoying herself (before Dad took over as the Nazi leader of our boat!).
And here we are braving the "bump & falls" at the end of the river. It was the coolest rapid on the whole river!
Apparently a group that attempted it during the morning run capsized their boat. We managed to stay afloat!
Here's a great YouTube video of that bump. Unfortunately, we're not in it, but you get the idea!
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