Nice for a happy ending. But I question how experienced these girls were in outdoor activities, to be doing this rafting in the first place.
Flame away.
“I question how experienced these girls were”
Not as inexperienced as these girls who thought the river ran in a circle: /http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2016/07/muskegon_river_tubing_trip_tur.html
"It's a little embarrassing," she said, noting this was not their first trip in the wilderness. "We've all floated before, kayaked before and backpacked before; it just takes one mistake for something like this to turn into a pretty bad situation."
After pinpointing their location, volunteer firefighter and quadcopter pilot Zach Kerndt attached a radio transmitter to the aircraft and delivered it to the group. “It felt like we were in a movie,” said Saathoff, whose trio received the communication device. “It was just surreal.”
Well, not totally clueless...
I did the Upper Iowa River a few years back. Put in at Kendalville and got out at Bluffton.
Took a canoe with my youngest daughter.
They had said the river was low but we still figured we would make good time - how low could it be.
Well, it was low and we spent a good bit of time switching sides, walking, bumping bottom, on and on. Took longer than we thought and it wasn’t as much fun as it could have been.
I think this may be a bogus story.
There’s no woods in Iowa. Just corn.
Everywhere, corn. Corn everywhere. All is corn.
And demon possessed scarecrows, Corn Monsters, spooky spirits in the corn fields, etc so on and so forth.
But no woods. No room because corn.
They are MORONS.
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On the “yellow River?
Where was I.P.Freely?
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They obviously had no concept of map scale.
They probably had a small copy of the map...
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