May 18, 2018
Though disarmingly known as “The Big Hug,” don’t be fooled, the famous rapids on the Upper Rascal River in eastern Idaho may not have big water, walloping holes, or much of any of the traditional components of the world’s most notorious rapids, but it does have jagged boulders plopped about everywhere, and it does have an unopus (though more closely related to the kraken than anything in the notoriously skittish cephalopod family) ready to rip you from your raft and repeatedly slam your rag body against a rock, then a tree, then a boulder again, until the only thing holding a recognizable shape is your pair of Teva Churns.