White Water Rafting

This was a long wait and it finally happened. Saturday night I was just thinking on taking some good pictures the following sunday and then I thought why not go on a white water rafting trip. The advantage of bieng in portland is that all kinds of adventure sports are within a two hour reach. Not being a great swimmer kind of made me think twice about rafting but then I took the plunge.
Wet planet Adventures offers a decent begineer/intermediate class III-IV rapids trip down the white salmon river. I chose the morning trip. It was good fun, especially for a first timer. The water was super cold, so we had to put on wet suits. Generally 6 guys and a guide fill a raft, but in our case we were just 4 and our guide - a super nice guy. Spending 3-4 hours on the river is totally exiting. I could not get an insight as to how the rapids are classified, the guide simply said 'U tend to gauge water with experience'. There was a 20 ft cliff jump which I chickened out of ( altophobia u see ).The rafting came to an end with a fall down a roaring water fall. That was the best part of the trip. It was like one of those movie scenes :).
Just like any other sport, rafting is quite addictive and as long as one does not panic its great fun. Next am aiming for the 3 day raft trip down the Rogue river in Oregon.