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Rafting and whitewater rafting are recreational outdoor activities which use an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water. This is often done on whitewater or different degrees of rou
Rafting in Grand Canyon, USA
Rafting in Himachal Pradesh, India
Whitewater rafting along the Cagayan de Oro River, Philippines
Rafting on the Arkansas River, Colorado, US
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A raft is any flat structure for support or transportation over water. It is usually of basic design, characterized by the absence of a hull. Rafts are usually kept afloat by using any combination of
Rafting
…Rafting and whitewater rafting are recreational outdoor activities which use an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water. This is often done on whitewater or different degrees of rough water. Dealing with risk is often a part of…
Traditional raft, from the 1884 edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Sketch by F.E. Paris (1841) showing construction of a native Peruvian balsa raft
Lumber rafts on the Peter I Canal. Early 20th-century picture by S. Prokudin-Gorsky.
Three Arks for a log drive on Pine Creek, in Lycoming or Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The left ark was for cooking and dining, the middle ark was the sleeping quarters and the right ark was for the horses. The arks were built for just one log drive and then sold for their lumber. The line of the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway can be seen on the eastern shore: the mountainside behind it is nearly bare of trees from clearcutting.