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The Pros and Cons of a Family Rafting Trip
By Kimberly Bonnell

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Marc the guide rowing with Moses.
I knew our family rafting trip on Utah's San Juan River would be a success late on the first day out when our 4 1/2-year-old son jumped into the muck-sodden riverbank and yelped for joy. Freedom! To get dirty (and stay there), pilot his own kayak, climb rocks at 8 a.m. and roast marshmallows at 8 p.m.river rafting was definitely kid heaven.

It was our second trip on this 20-mile stretch of river, a lazy float amidst red rock canyons that comes complete with a few mini-rapids (Class II in a range of I-VI) big enough to be fun but not scary. Our friend and trusted guide, Marc Smith had recommended this trip precisely for its child-friendliness. A professional river guide with many years of experience on the world's greatest whitewater (we'd met him on our first trip on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon 10 years earlier), Marc announced to us when Moses was born,"When he's 3, I've got a river for him."

So when Moses was 3, we went.

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