Whitewater Rafting on West Virginia's New & Gauley Rivers
Come on In, the Water's Weird
Published on 14. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-60949-246-5 (ISBN)
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It's not everyone who can look at the violent white caps of river rapids and think, "I want to master that." Whitewater rafters are not just anyone.
A certain confidence and devil-may-care attitude must be required to set off on West Virginia's New or Gauley Rivers, nothing to protect the riders from the rough waters aside from a helmet and life vest, but to successfully accomplish their mission would be to master some of the most popular and treacherous rapids in the country. Jay Young, a raft guide turned writer, leads readers through the local lore and history of the rivers, where the ordinary almost never occurs.
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Jay Young has lived in the New River Gorge area for five years and worked as a whitewater guide for three of them. When he's not running rivers or climbing rocks, he's a freelance writer in nearby Fayetteville and is closely connected to the local rafting community. He says, "My time on the back of a raft left me with a profound appreciation for the quirkiness of this sport, this industry and the people who ply it. (We're talking boatloads of quirk here.)"