Family river trips with inflatable kayaks. From: Sunset | Date: May 1, 1994| Author: Phillips, Jeff | COPYRIGHT 1994 Sunset Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

THERE HE WAS, drifting in an eddy, looking cool. My 16-year-old son, Scott, his black Giants cap still on backward and still dry, had just breezed through one of the biggest rapids on Oregon's Rogue River.

With a long, sunburned leg stretched over each side of his orange inflatable kayak and a big grin that barely held back laughter, Scott watched my own wave-eating plunge through Blossom Bar Rapid. As I drifted into his eddy, sloshing water and wringing at least a gallon of ...

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