Good ride, but rafters didn’t make the 8-second count

WHITEWATER — Remember the mechanical bull riding made popular in Urban Cowboy?

A pair of boaters in a 14-foot cataraft got a feeling for that rotating, jerking motion as they ran Slalom Rapid and got hung up in Seymour’s — a keeper wave on the South Fork Payette. The river was running 5850 cfs.