Whitewater Rafting

I organized a trip for the class to go white water rafting about an hour east of Ottawa with River Run Rafting. Organizing the trip was a little bit of a hassle but the service from River Run was excellent...night and day compared to what we received from the skydiving place.

We had to get there a couple of hours before we were scheduled to go on the river. Lunch was included with the ticket price...I guess they want to make sure people had enough energy before the trip. They had a volleyball net, basketball net, horseshoe pit, and a ping pong table setup so people can entertain themselves while waiting for the safety briefing.

Organizing a caravan of MBA students is a bit like herding cats, but we managed to get there with plenty of time to spare. The rafting itself took about 6-7 hours...it was great! We decided to go with the 6-man sport boats because we thought it would be more exciting that way. I'm glad we went that way. There were some other outfits on the river that had 12-man boats (some even more) and it didn't look like it would be all that much fun. They packed us on a bus to get us to the beginning of the rapids and we had a little safety pep talk before launching.

There were a couple of other boats in our group of 5 boats...don't know much about them since we didn't really interact with them other than splashing them as we paddled by. The video's pretty neat...only $30 and well done.

I might have to plan another smaller trip for next May when the rapids are supposed to be crazy...

Here's the video in any case. I had to split it up into two parts because of the Youtube time restriction...