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Jul 2025
Avoid at all costs being a swimmer while rafting

Avoid at all costs being a swimmer while rafting

A river is like an avalanche: its current is unstoppable, immensely powerful, often very cold, and carries hidden and dangerous debris. If a rapid’s hydraulics are turbulent enough to throw you out of a raft—or worse, flip the raft—you can be in serious trouble. If you find yourself “swimming” while rafting, you might be gasping […]
Jun 2025
Consider using “financial coolers”

Consider using “financial coolers”

One of the advantages of enjoying the “great outdoors” when traveling by raft versus hiking is the ability to carry hundreds of pounds of gear to make the experience conspicuously posh: tents, cots, chairs, tables, stoves, kitchen equipment, and food. Rafters do not carry mounds of camping gear only to eat a backpacker’s meal of […]
May 2025
Navigating through a financial “Rock Garden”

Navigating through a financial “Rock Garden”

Drop a ball on to the top of a “peg maze” and the ball randomly bounces left or right off the pegs in route to the boom, its path impossible to predict. Many rivers have a peg maze of sorts: a boulder-strewn field blocking your raft’s path down the river. Nicknamed a “rock garden”, this […]
Apr 2025
Are the financial markets making you anxious?

Are the financial markets making you anxious?

The stretches of whitewater rivers I usually drift are characterized as “pool and drop”: alternating sections of calm, deep water and steeper, turbulent descents. The drop in the river may have a waterfall of many feet with water at the boom flowing back upstream creating a “hole” that can trap your raft, bucking it as […]
Mar 2025
Your phone is lost, but are you losing it?

Your phone is lost, but are you losing it?

Launching a raft for a multi-day float trip can be a frenzied experience. There is the anticipation of being on the river, and the pressure to launch quickly: a queue of rafters are waiting for their turn on the ramp to launch their rafts. For a 4 to 5 day float on the river, my […]
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