The water level on the Trinity River is just right and the hot summer weather is ideal. But a month after local white-water rafting businesses received approval to reopen from county and U.S. Forest Service officials, company owners say that reservation numbers are still modest. School and church groups have all canceled and the absence […]
Trinity River Rafting
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Rafting the Trinity
Recreational whitewater rafting likely began in the 1940s on Wyoming’s Snake River, when some intrepid argonauts saw a wooden boat, a gnarled mash of rocks and roiling, swift water, and thought, “That looks fun!” Thirty years later in 1972, it became an Olympic sport at the fateful Munich Games. Now, though the technology has improved […]