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A 24-year-old female river guide from Durango drowned while rafting the Upper Animas River on Saturday afternoon, San Juan County officials announced Tuesday. Just after 1 p.m. Saturday ...
Colin Evans doesn’t remember having female coworkers when he started ... waiting for their river guides to unload their rafts from a trailer into the water. About half of the professionals ...
River rafting guide Bridget Crocker released “The River’s Daughter” earlier this month, a debut memoir of how she found ...
Hampton, an experienced river guide and volunteer firefighter, said he’d never done rescues in floodwaters this dangerous before. The French Broad normally runs at about 2,000 cubic feet per ...
A 46-year-old Fort Collins man and his 13-year-old son were rescued by Mountain Whitewater rafting guides who were leading a trip down the Poudre River at the time. They had become separated from ...
Jun. 7—A rafting guide was injured in a bear attack early Wednesday morning while camping on the Middle Fork of the Flathead River. According to state wildlife officials, the bear encounter ...
The river current pinned her raft against landslide debris, and it rolled over. Burke, the guide and another passenger were pulled out of the water and into another raft, but Burke died of her ...
But when the group stopped for a break at a riverside kiosk, the river rose dramatically. A female vendor advised the two rafting guides to abort the trip but the advice was ignored, according to ...
Other whitewater rafting operators across the region have also pivoted from recreation to emergency response. “We’ve been using our own rafts and our guides to search the river [and] to help ...