Every adventure story has to include a character with an experience outside of their typical element. An adventure trip in the Appalachias is actually unique in that the antagonistic force is often a product of humanity, even if it is a mere fringe o

“Quick, there’s some hair rolling up on us! This ain’t no haystack so I don’t want to see anyone in the lawn-chair position. Let’s run this smoker!”

This sentence may not mean a lot to you, landlubber,

I wasn’t a guide for long, about nine weeks. I was a college student in need of a job and I found a great one working my J-stroke on the Cheat River.

But as life dictates I stumbled on a much higher-paying one that didn’t inv

I’m totally about writing a story on booking a whitewater rafting trip because I’m not into water at all. When all my friends are jumping in the deep end of the pool, I’m the one hanging on the edge of the three foot marker kicking

The multi-million dollar whitewater rafting industry’s affect on the state of West Virginia is astounding. This industry’s credited with the creation of hundreds of jobs, hundreds of thousands of annual tourists and national protection an