My Page: Daniel Berger
Whitewater Tragedy
What Went Wrong on Montana’s Alberton Gorge?Last Saturday, a woman on a rafting trip with her school drowned in the Alberton Gorge, an 11 mile stretch of class III+ whitewater on the Clark Fork River, in western Montana. The stretch is a classic canyon run, with stunning scenery and exciting rapids. It’s one of the most floated stretches of river in the region and is considered to be relatively safe.
I'd almost ended up floating the Gorge that day myself, and this accident hit very close to home. What happened out there? And what would I have done?
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