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The people who grew up on the streets to the Revo rafts or. Inner tubes of the new. Goal that's exactly the same as the fellows in the mouth. They want to they want to get out of the suburban urban. Rat race and see a little of nature before it's all destroyed and never exist again. And it's worth seeing. Even if you have to have a little danger I would not recommend anybody get non-sex info or any of the more really dangerous places like will salute a wood I'll shoulder any of those places no. But they are stretches of this into that extremely pleasant and well you do get that modest pastoral Woods woodland scene that is so restored. And so life generated. To somebody who's who lives in nothing but a maze of chromium and steel and plastic and seen it all the

time. The movie Deliverance was made on this for a lot more people are coming out to go down and run the rest. A lot of us recall us and a lot of people like to do this more and more every day. Right. I've been working here for several years leading trips down the river helping me to getting this trip will be more. MARY DOUGLAS And we have a share of helping yourself. Both me and Kerry will be in rast today to help out with the Rasta don't have a garden and actually know where they're going. So now we need for you to pick out a raft.

For the raft standing around. OK if you're watching. I try to do it on your head. And down here you go. When the water starts you stop. And you can tell there is a wall and see the forest service in the last couple

years has started managing it particularly a quarter about a quarter of a mile on either side of the river. The idea here is to block the access to the river so that the only way you can get is about but you will see any trucks or mobile homes of this sort of thing along the riverbank so you might see a few campers and a lot of voters in the next few years the voters are virtually all going to have to carry the RAF's or whatever down to the river to get into it. They also my stars begin to have to carry a lot of a lot of back out. First thing I need to tell you about is. The god rest so I will be one of the rason. We watch you try to keep a lead wrapped in a sweet breath with a god in it. For the lead rat is helpful and you know it's one of the major Kern is in the river where there's the fewest rocks. If you watch where the lead rap goes you're built to have a little bit of an easier

time as far as getting stuck on rocks is concerned. We've crafted paddles in life jackets and bodies in a van and Ras whatever might fall on the river. The next thing is the life jacket. This is probably the most important thing today. I need a volunteer. It's got a life jacket on. If you volunteer. This is a good volunteer because you've got a life jacket on right. Julie will tell you how what's wrong just so you'll know. Well this is good actually. Let me tell you what happened when she felt in. Her life jacket will be right here. Getting up there where it's hard to bury. The colonel just twist and turn a life jacket all around the live jackal to float on the surface. If you don't have the full real time you will float underneath the water about six or eight inches and you will build briefly weld in there. And you get full tightness. OK that feels pretty good now. She has are taught to tighten the bow knot. This is

important this is the only thing that keeps the lifejacket from coming off over your head. This comes undone and you fall out of the water just a little bit of current will pull the life jacket over your head will be floating up on the surface of the water and you'll be just trying to grabbing claw from the surface and will be flooding very well at all. When. You sit on the outside half the raft you fall out. You sit on the end that half the raft like this. When you follow you tend to fall into the floor of the raft so you just count your own imaginary line right down the middle of the donut. The flight of Fortune of the RAF since it only inside half of that. Now when you sit down that you don't get your knee down here on the floor the rats don't get anything except your feet you can sit your feet flat on the floor. How are you. So you get out here and paddle. You never get your knee down here and you try to avoid getting your rear end down there. You'll find some rocks very quickly. The floor is very thin. Just kind of go down the river in the raft. Another thing you never want to do is hang a leg out. Leg out. You might all what you might be going forward

but then what if the raft gets turned sideways and goes sideways into a rock your leg will be between the raft and the rock your ass off with the rocket. Can hurt very badly. If you go to. The last.

People. Actually. Come down you're going to be turning

sideways. And you get the water we don't want you panic you know what it's like. This is swimming Rapids. Give you an opportunity to stream. Back. When a downstream. Experience is also learning more. Of your head. If you will. Every other.

Week. This is my third year. STUDENT.

Joy being with you and give them experience. I think. Many people have an opportunity. People like me. Here. Change. Change. Different days it rains. We have a dry spell. People also change the atmosphere the trips are different you have a young single. Family. Maybe some younger children we have scouts. There's something about being in the wilderness area and not seeing a lot of campers of civilization along the banks. Once we get people down the river that's it we wear them for about seven hours and the people start. Now we have to do things a little bit differently. This is the most

part of you here because of the dangers here. In the back of. The class right up to the top. It has I mean. Your next your next expert in Iran. Whatever you're risking losing your life for example. Are you going to get one now. If you don't know

what you. Wanted it's very unlikely. But there are always. Something I would. Like. Them to. Watch. Watch. For. Always. They don't know that they watch. That. And

very bad. Back to this. Point. Now we're through most of the trip for the gods.

It's been very hard taking all the rest of the 76 grit. To get to the customers because the trip. Rabbits always pick up and speed and complexity. The bridge of this name because I'm. Going down the big wave at the people. This is most often the filming of the movie Deliverance. Use different angles here with a camera lens wide angle different to make it seem like a different. Theory accessible to the bridge. Bring a camera equipment down there. Then have to go.

Surfing wrap it around the right screen left turn. Me down if. They were. Going to be on the right. Mary is. Going to be waving you to the right. Direction. Listen to all the guys who can be 3 minute. Drive in. The direction. That we get everyone down there. You're pretty. Good right. Obviously.

A lot of people. And everywhere everything.

You hear about. Something here you have a lot of. People a lot of people. Yes. They should have very good safety equipment and not only. Piece together kinds of wooden canoe and you know and really good equipment. And secondly that they if they had not extremely experienced white water men that they should stay off the sections that the map very plainly tell them the ones increasing and some of them almost

impossible difficult to get through especially in a canoe. And the but the third and most important is that they should go with someone who will not let them take unnecessary risks. They like a guy that's several too and that really is the way to get there. The. Relaxation and. The kind of the. Training. That everybody. Seems to that's the way to get that without the danger is really not any possible way that I could patrol the rover and keep the foolish foolish ones from getting around it because I don't even know which ones are the foolish ones. Perhaps not absolutely necessary but certainly desirable people to see the world as

it's made by something else. I mean God was a mighty poet and that his poetry.