Recreation Dept. Recreates on a White Water Rafting Trip

As a whitewater rafting guide on the Kennebec River, highwater is always greatly appreciated. Today came as somewhat of a surprise, with all of the rain that we've gotten in the past couple of days I should have known that the Kennebec would be flowing higher than the standard 4800 CFS. This morning I heard '6400' and was thinking: "i have to take down a group of kids at highwater today? Guess we'll see what happens"

I'll admit I was a bit nervous, while I know Magic washes out, my greatest concern was taking a boatful of young girls through Big Mama and not flipping at any of the sisters. As soon as I met these girls, I was somewhat relieved.

I would have to say that my favorite part of the day was 'rallying the troops' as they say. These girls were so full of spunk it was very easy to get them excited about going down the river. Little did they know, I was somewhat nervous and was playing each of the sisters through my head over and over again praying to the river gods that I didn't lose one of them before the Alleyway.

Gotta love those river gods, my run today was a great one and I know that all of the girls had a great time - and so did I.

Thanks to the staff for bringing your kids up here. I had a blast and I hope you all did too.