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Kerri: Whitewater, white knuckles

In her Main Street column for the Coeur d'Alene Press today, Kerri Thoreson writes:

For the past several years my husband and I have taken annual mini-vacations doing something we’ve not done before. Last year we went whale watching in the San Juan Islands and the year before took a flight over Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon. A jet boat day trip in Hells Canyon was fun but doing that in August, I’d not recommend.

There’s a reason it’s called Hells Canyon.

So this year we took our first white water raft trip, rafting on the Clark Fork River in the Alberton Gorge out of Superior, Mont., with ROW Adventures. I love water and being in and on water, but the thought of crashing through rapids in a raft had me somewhat unnerved. I’m more a “leisurely float down the North Fork of the Coeur d’Alene River” kind of gal. More here.

Question: Do you like doing things you've never done before?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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