| It is interesting to note that whitewater
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| | undertaken. At first, surplus military
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| rafting was one of the earliest forms of
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| | rafts were used as boats and it was only
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| transportation. It was not only used for
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| | much later that inflatable rafts were
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| carrying people but also for transferring
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| | used.
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| goods from one place to another. However,
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| | Private companies played a major role in
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| it became quite popular as a form of
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| | augmenting the rafting business. In 1956,
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| leisure activity in the 1980s.
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| | one of the members of the most affluent
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| In 1811, the first recorded attempt to
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| | business families of America, John D.
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| navigate the Snake River in Wyoming was
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| | Rockefeller built a resort that
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| planned by the Overland Astorians. While
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| | introduced one of the first floating
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| attempting to boat the stretch below
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| | trips in the country. However, it only
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| Jackson Hole, the river was found to be
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| | evoked a lukewarm response. Later, in the
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| too treacherous and it came to be called
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| | 1960s and 1970s, exclusive whitewater
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| ?Mad River.?
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| | rafting companies were formed. These
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| The rubber river raft is believed to have
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| | include the Becker-Cooke Expeditions,
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| been invented in the early 1840s. It was
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| | Hatch River Expeditions and Slickrock
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| first made by Lt. John Fremont, who was
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| | Adventures.
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| then serving in the U.S army and Horace
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| | Rafting was first included in the Munich
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| H. Day. They invented the rubber raft
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| | Olympic Games, 1972. Subsequently, it was
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| with the intention of surveying the Rocky
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| | included in the 1992 Barcelona Games and
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| Mountains and the Great Plains. Although
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| | the 1996 Atlanta Games. In 1996, the
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| the raft was invented in the
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| | Ocoee River in Tennessee Valley played
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| mid-nineteenth century, it was not until
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| | host to the whitewater events of the
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| the turn of the century that the first
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| | Summer Olympic Games.
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| ever commercial whitewater trip was
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