white river rafting

or should i say, tons of pedaling and rock climbing?

my coworkers and i took a (partially subsidised) trip to the south fork american river for some white river rafting!! we didn't hire a guide to save money (which left me a little dubious at first, some of us thought there may be a possibility of dying), but i must say, our two 'unofficial' guides turned out to be quite good at guiding us down the river.

unfortunately we started too late (not our fault, we had to wait for the other raft to show up), so the water levels were getting really low. nevertheless, we still wanted to raft, so we set off. a 1 1/2 hour raft turned out to be 4 hours instead, tons of navigating through rocks (where the guides proceeded to unload the raft and have us walk by the shore (i.e. rock climbing), and tons of pedaling since the river no longer carried us downstream, but many times the wind blew us upstream instead. and of course, i had to fall out of the raft as well. and oh yeah. someone accidentally loosened the air valve on our raft so it started leaking and it almost became a swimming pool.

i am completely sore, sunburnt, and my legs are all banged up, but we still had a great time :)