Whitewater rafting

Until Lakota the horse came and changed everything, Mary was a whitewater rafter, navigating her own one-person, high-performance, Russian cataraft on some of the most beautiful rivers in the country. Many raft trips were multi-day, carry-in, carry-out wilderness camping trips, an awesome experience in the true sense of the word.

Gates of Ladore Trip on the Green River
Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado
August, 1998

Hell's Half Mile rapid on the Green River, a long, boulder-strewn section of the Green, has a huge hole you have to deal with at the top. Mary's cataraft is at the top of the hole, literally just feet from a straight-in approach, a likely flipper for this sized cataraft. There was only time for one stroke, and that was all it took to pivot around the hole.