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Good ride, but rafters didn’t make the 8-second count

WHITEWATER -- Remember the mechanical bull riding made popular in Urban Cowboy?

A pair of boaters in a 14-foot cataraft got a feeling for that rotating, jerking motion as they ran Slalom Rapid and got hung up in Seymour's -- a keeper wave on the South Fork Payette. The river was running 5850 cfs.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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