A Guide to Glacier’s Rivers for More Than 30 Years - Glacier Raft Company
| July 19, 2008 |  View for printing |
To work as a raft guide on the rivers surrounding Glacier National Park is to lead a kind of charmed existence. For a few months out of the year, these young people spend their days floating the Middle or North Fork, steering a few boatloads per day of giddy tourists from places like Nebraska or Japan or Alberta along several miles of the blue, churning waters.
It’s not all fun, of course. There are rafts to haul and equipment to clean and nervous first-time boaters to reassure. And then there’s the remote yet ever-present possibility of the boat flipping, scattering tourists along the riverbanks. But in the evening, there’s usually time to fish or kayak, and at the end of the day, the guides retire to a sleeping bag in their teepee, or tent, or refurbished school bus.
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