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Rapids, rivers, waterfalls and falling down
posted by LEILANI SALTER | 9/7/2010

Rafting their way through rapids on the Chattooga River are (front, from left) Stan and Brennan O’Dell; (back, from left) Robin Street and Craig Kaplan. (Russell Hart, Natahala Outdoor Center)
River water sprayed into our faces as four of us and our guide rafted through the churning rapids. Suddenly, there were only three of us as one person tumbled into the water. That’s what they had warned us: You will get wet. Someone will go overboard. And, yep, this is the river where they filmed “Deliverance,” so if you hear banjo music, look out. We were whitewater rafting on the Chattooga River in north Georgia. In addition to the river, this Full Story
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