Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, every Monday we feature a 90 Second Escape — essentially, a 90-second video or slide show of a place you’d probably rather be: a trail, a park, a greenway, a lake … anywhere as long as it’s not under a fluorescent bulb.
Today’s 90-Second Escape: Whitewater Rafting
Saturday’s GetHiking! Triangle hike — an 8.3-miler on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail at Falls Lake north of Raleigh — was the first hot hike of the season. And not just hot, but humid. Sweaty and muggy. Salt-in-your-eyes sweaty, body-parts-sticking-to-body-parts muggy. A good hike, but one that made one realize that the spring hiking season — in the Piedmont, at least — is drawing to a close. Time to start thinking about other pursuits as the summer approaches. Pursuits such as …
Whitewater rafting! Here’s a peek (from a few years back) at the perfect way to spend a hot, sweaty, eye-stinging, summer’s day.
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