West_Virgina - Rafting

Whitewater Rafting the New River, West Virginia

Wild Wet West Virginia 

Its 40 degrees and dark when I arrive at the whitewater rafting outfitters.  I exit the truck to see my breath creating billows of fog when I breathe. I hear, oddly, a crowing rooster.  He is getting an early head start on daybreak.  I’m shivering and start to wonder what have I gotten myself into. Other rafters appear on the scene and quickly I realize I’m the more senior of the bunch. Picking raft mates that I may bond with seems to be mere luck of the draw,  so I begin summing up the guides in hopes that I find one I’m comfortable with. […]