| Not many people are aware of the fact that | | | | Rockefeller came up with the idea of even building an |
| whitewater rafting was one of the earliest forms of | | | | entire lodge from where people could try their hand at |
| travel on water and people that needed to go from | | | | whitewater rafting. Though the initial response to this |
| one place to another used to indulge in whitewater | | | | offer was lukewarm at best, a decade later during the |
| rafting to move from one place to another. It is only in | | | | sixties and seventies many whitewater rafting |
| the eighties that this activity turned into a pleasure | | | | companies were floated such as Becker-Cooke |
| sport. In fact, it was actually the year 1811 that has the | | | | Expeditions as well as Slickrock Adventures that |
| distinction of being the year in which the Snake River | | | | helped to popularize whitewater rafting. |
| that is located in Wyoming was first traversed by | | | | In the year 1972, whitewater rafting became an |
| indulging in what is now known as whitewater rafting | | | | Olympic sport and it was then included in the Munich |
| by the Overland Astorians who could not go further | | | | Olympic Games. Much later, in the year 1992 it also |
| from a place called Jackson Hole as the river was too | | | | came to be included in the Barcelona Olympic Games |
| treacherous. | | | | and then again in the Atlanta Olympic Games of 1996. |
| Rubber Rafts | | | | That same year (1996) whitewater rafting was also |
| In the year 1840, the first river raft made from rubber | | | | included in the Summer Olympic Games, and more |
| was invented by a person called Lt. John Fremont | | | | particularly it was performed in the Ocoee River that |
| who was US Army personnel and who along with | | | | lies in the Tennessee Valley in the US. |
| Horace H. Day came up with the first such rubber. This | | | | Whitewater river rafting is an exciting activity. It will |
| raft was invented during the middle of the nineteenth | | | | allow you to put away your cell phone, forget your |
| century; however, its first commercial use only began | | | | boss and not worry about negotiating traffic and being |
| at the end of that century. The first whitewater rafting | | | | affected by noise pollution. If you like to camp and |
| rafts were actually surplus military ones and they | | | | enjoy adventure in the outdoors then this is the activity |
| served as boats for the military while the more | | | | for you. You can raft down the rivers during the |
| modern inflatable rafts were only developed much | | | | daytime and spend enjoyable nights by a camp site |
| later. | | | | and so enjoy an alternative vacation in the stillness of |
| The credit for popularizing whitewater rafting goes to | | | | the wild outdoors. |
| private companies, while in the year 1956 John D. | | | | |