| One of my favorite hobbies is river rafting. I have | | | | the wind trying to blow all of our rafts and |
| always lived near a river or creek, and since I was a | | | | equipment away. |
| kid I loved to go tubing or rafting down the river. I | | | | The green river is kind of slow and does not have |
| think every kid loves to go tubing or rafting. I have | | | | many rapids, if any at all. It is just a kind of relaxing |
| gone many times, nearly every summer of my life. | | | | river run. There is always the possibility of flash |
| Usually I would just go on tubes. We could find tubes | | | | floods though, that could come at night. It could rain |
| at a random tire repair shop. Often they just had | | | | anywhere miles and miles upstream and we could still |
| inner tubes for sale that many of the kids in town | | | | end up having a flashflood where we were at. We |
| would just go buy to go tubing. The creek was fine | | | | always tried to find a sandbar as high as we could, |
| to tube on as a kid. It is not very large or fast, but | | | | so that we would not be washed out if a flashflood |
| felt like it was when I was younger. Now the creek | | | | came. Fortunately none ever came. It might have |
| by my house is kind of boring to tube, but there are | | | | been fun though, to have a flashflood come. It would |
| bigger rivers around to raft and tube on also. | | | | have added a little more excitement to our trips and |
| One river rafting trip I once went on lasted a week. | | | | give us something more to talk about. I have not |
| We rafted down the green river in Utah for about | | | | ever really gone white water rafting, although I |
| seventy-five miles. It lasted nearly a week. The | | | | would really like to. It looks pretty fun. I have just |
| whole time the river was surrounded by towering | | | | done the slower rivers. They are kind of nice too |
| cliffs, around one-hundred feet straight up. Each night | | | | though. It is nice to be able to just sit back and relax |
| strong winds would come rushing down the canyon. | | | | as you float down the river. |
| We had to unpack and sleep on sandbars, often with | | | | |