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The wilderness area is named after and protects much of the Bruneau and Jarbidge Rivers and their canyons. Whitewater rafting is a popular recreational activity in this wilderness area, which has rivers up to Class V. [1] [2] About 40 miles (64 km) of the Bruneau River and about 28.8 miles (46.3 km) of the Jarbidge River are classified as a ...
The Bruneau River region was historically occupied by the Northern Shoshone, Northern Paiute, and Bannock tribes [2] The Bruneau River was given its name sometime before 1821 by French Canadian Pierre Bruneau (1796–1873) voyageurs working for the Montreal-based fur trading North West Company. [5] The name is derived from the French meaning ...
Wilderness Tours Resort. Wilderness Tours (WT) is a commercial whitewater rafting/kayaking and outdoor training center. It was founded in 1975 when Joe E. Kowalski and five others (Sean Mannion, Jimmy Casilio, Robbie Rosenberger, Ken Czambel and Paul Fogal) took rafts down and navigated the section of river known as Rocher-Fendu.
Paris (2021 population, 14,956 [2]) is a community located in the County of Brant, Ontario, Canada. It lies just northwest from the city of Brantford at the spot where the Nith River empties into the Grand River. Paris was voted "the Prettiest Little Town in Canada" by Harrowsmith Magazine. [3] The town was established in 1850.
www.ontarioparks.ca /park /quetico Quetico Provincial Park is a large wilderness park in Northwestern Ontario , Canada, known for its excellent canoeing and fishing . The 4,760 km 2 (1,180,000-acre) park shares its southern border with Minnesota 's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness , which is part of the larger Superior National Forest .
Rafting to Vancouver, British Columbia Canada (August 2006). Raftsmen in Northern Finland in the 1930s Timber rafting on the Willamette River (May 1973).. Timber rafting is a method of transporting felled tree trunks by tying them together to make rafts, which are then drifted or pulled downriver, or across a lake or other body of water.
Studies have shown that injury rates in rafting are relatively low, [17] though they may be skewed due to a large number of unreported incidents. [18] Fatalities are rare in both commercial and do-it-yourself rafting. [16] Meta-analyses have calculated that fatalities ranged between 0.55 [19] – 0.86 [20] per 100,000 user days.
Sheep Creek is a 63-mile (101 km) long [3] tributary of the Bruneau River.Beginning at an elevation of 6,126 feet (1,867 m) [2] east of Owyhee in northern Elko County, Nevada, it flows generally north into Owyhee County, Idaho and the Owyhee Desert, where it is roughly paralleled by Idaho State Highway 51.