Rafters sometimes get to touch the mountains!

Look carefully at this picture! What is wrong here?

This was taken our first morning on the river when our group of two rafts (we met our gear raft at lunch) was traveling with another group (mostly giggly girls from a private camp).

One GGR (giggly girl raft) went first through a rather tight opening in the river past a huge granite boulder called House Rock (as in as big as a house). For some reason GGR just stopped moving and slid sideways blocking the channel.

Whoosh! Our raft lost its hold on a rock, got caught up in the current of the river, and slammed into them. That should have just shoved GGR forward but instead we ended up jammed right against House Rock with GGR!

To cure this chaos our guides, whom we had just met less than two hours earlier, asked EVERYONE from our raft to move into GGR while they bumped and wiggled and squished and jiggled and shimmied and plied and lifted and pulled and pried and pleaded and finally unhooked the two rafts.

We then rode down through the teeny channel and finally got back into our own raft and AWAY FROM THE GGR!

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