When Karen Fired Her Rafting Guide on the Colorado — Found Dead Hours Later.

#CataractCanyon #ColoradoRiver #WhitewaterRafting Her Son Watched Her Go Under. He Was in the Same Raft. Cataract Canyon. Colorado River. June 17th, 2019. A woman from Atlanta brought her seventeen-year-old son on a private permit run through one of the most consequential stretches of whitewater in North America — twenty-eight thousand cubic feet per second, high water, the Big Drops running at full volume. The lead guide told her at the staging table that the lake she had paddled twice and the canyon she was about to enter were not the same thing. She asked if her federal permit gave her the right to go anyway. It did. 🔔 Subscribe to Zoom Out Perspective — new cases every week. 👍 If this made you stop and think, hit like. 💬 COMMENT At what point in this story could Ray have changed the outcome? I've been sitting with that question since I first read the file. Drop your answer below. 🔗 SOURCES & FURTHER READING American Whitewater — Accident Database: americanwhitewater.org/content/Accident NPS — Cataract Canyon Permit Information: nps.gov/cany/planyourvisit/riverinfo.htm Outside Online — Whitewater Deaths on the Colorado: outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/water-activities PMC — Whitewater Rafting Deaths in Colorado 2014–2017: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6474452 NPS — Canyonlands River Safety: nps.gov/cany/planyourvisit/riversafety.htm #CataractCanyon #ColoradoRiver #WhitewaterRafting #RiverSafety #Canyonlands #NationalParks #OutdoorSafety #SurvivalStory #WildernessAwareness #Karen #TrueStory #RaftingAccident #PFD #ColdWater #RiverGuide #AdventureStory #Kayaking