text: Cheating death has never been this much fun.\n\nTaking a last minute reservation and completely not knowing what we were getting ourselves into, we sat in on the safety talk, and were right on our way to meet up with Captain Dan on our rodeo raft.  Now, Captain Dan is another 5-star review for another review, so I'll stick with the details and rafting itself.  \n\nA \"rodeo raft\" is not a fun frolic thru a couple rapids and down some little whitewater falls where everyone on the raft yells \"WHEEEE!!\".  It's actually a double-black diamond, death-cheating scenario down class 4 and 5 whitewater where the raft is only 30 pounds and flips easily on even the calmest of waters.  If a fly were to land on the raft and fart, we surely would have flipped again.\n\nWhile it would have been wise to bring water shoes and maybe some swim trucks, I decided to go in my burlap shorts (which weighed 85 lbs soaking wet) and my canvas Keen shoes.  With that combo you'd think we would have been weighted down enough, but hell no.  \n\nStill after four runs and a couple hours of unintentional swimming and lifesaving, I couldn't believe we just did what we had done.  The most fun I've had in a long time.\n\nStrong swimmers encouraged.  Novice rafters discouraged.  But aw why the hell not!