Schistosomiasis is a danger for people who raft rivers in Africa.
South Fork of the American River: On this river section near Sacramento, California's most popular whitewater rafting river, upstream reservoirs are at capacity and should have good flows six days a week through Labor Day and up to four days per week in September. .
(If you think this is just a ski town, you have another thing to try!) There's stand-up paddle boarding (which I felt I had the hang of after a lesson), rafting, river tubing, tennis, horseback riding, mountain biking and tons more for every activity level.
The Ocoee River, in the national forest in neighbouring Polk county, is one of the top whitewater rafting rivers in the United States and the site of canoe and kayak events during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games.
For over 40 years we have, along with his beloved wife Dee, climbed mountains, rafted rivers, enjoyed wine and good food and basked in the joy and cheer he brought to every encounter.
I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking, which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
He has rafted rivers in Yakutsk, dodged grizzly bears and black flies around Great Slave Lake (his record for fly bites is two hundred in a single night), and scouted rock formations on the Skeleton Coast, sometimes hiking more than twenty miles a day.
The Beta: The Yough (pronounced "Yock") is one of the premier rafting rivers of the East, offering trips to satisfy any level of adventure from a family float on the Middle to intermediate excitement on the Lower or technical class V on the Upper.
Adventure Sunderland, Sunderland Marina; marineactivitiescentre.co.uk/adventuresunderland; 0191 514 4721 Raft the river Washburn The river Washburn is the only dam-released whitewater trip in the country.
I wanted to raft a river.
An hour west of the famous Marlborough vineyards -- though not quite as far as the sunny coast of Nelson -- Pelorus River is the only site in New Zealand where a collection of dwarves have rafted a river in wine barrels.
