WATERSPORTS -- Peter Grubb, co-founder of ROW Adventures, was reminiscing Sunday while guiding rafters on the Moyie River east of Bonners Ferry.

"We pioneered commercial rafting on the Moyie in 1982 and this was the very first one-day trip ROW offered," Grubb said, commenting on the photo with Mount Clifty in the background. ROW was known then as River Odysseys West.

Commercial whitewater rafting was so foreign to North Idaho at the time, the Panhandle National Forests didn't even require ROW to have a commercial outfitter permit until the 1990s.

• I was on one of those Moyie trips in '82 as ROW was beginning its commendable services of offering high, wet adventure to the common man, woman and child.