JEFF: Good morning.

LAUREN: Good morning.

JEFF: Welcome.

I'm Jeff Cogle.

Nice to meet you.

I'm your guide today.

We're going to go and get ready to start a safety briefing.

If you don't mind, come on in.

LAURITA: All right.

LAUREN: Let's do it.

HARRY: So, River Riders.

We like to refer to as the one-stop shop for outdoor activities in Harpers Ferry.

We can provide on-water activities like whitewater rafting, flat-water tubing, whitewater tubing, kayaking, stand-up paddle boards, canoeing.

It's the best place to begin for someone who has never been whitewater rafting before.

Harpers Ferry is like the best introduction for someone to do that.

So, the raft trip's probably two and a half to three hours long and when we take you whitewater rafting, you actually get a view of Harpers Ferry from the water.

That gets you really close to the natural history and really close to the industrial history of Harpers Ferry.

JEFF: Everybody that look off to your right, you'll see the raging, screaming Shenandoah River.

LAURITA: I'm excited but a little bit nervous.

LAUREN: Just tuck and roll, girl.

Tuck and roll.

That's all you can do.

HARRY: Two primary water sources at Harpers Ferry, the Shenandoah River and Potomac River which come together at the confluence.

They both meet at Harpers Ferry.

It's a really interesting place because not only do two rivers meet, there are three states meet there as well.

Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia all meet in the same place.

It's one of the older river valleys in the country and it's built off a series of shell ledges which create the rapids for us.

LAUREN: Ooh, I'm excited.

LAURITA: Mm-hmm.

We're about to get on our... LAUREN: Whitewater Raft!

LAURITA: They're putting our rafts over there.

LAUREN: We're excited.

Very excited.

LAURITA: Woo!

LAUREN: Let's do it.

JEFF: Be careful.

Walk on out... LAURITA: Okay.

JEFF: And hop in on the side of the boat there.

LAURITA: All right.

LAUREN: Let's do it.

JEFF: Nice, way to wait for each other.

LAURITA: This is the calm... LAUREN: The calm before the storm.

JEFF: All right.

Are you ready to do some West Virginia style surfing?

BOTH: Let's do it.

(laughter).

LAUREN: Don't lose a paddle.

JEFF: High five.

Bring it in.

LAURITA: High five.

JEFF: One more.

BOTH: Whoa!

LAURITA: I'm ready, woo!

(overlapping chatter and screaming) (laughter) JEFF: Take a break.

(laughter and screaming).

LAUREN: How about that!

JEFF: Okay.

You all can just relax and enjoy the scenery for a few seconds here.

LAUREN: Wow.

LAURITA: Let's just enjoy these moments right now.

LAUREN: Let's enjoy it.

LAURITA: Let y'all take one last good look back up at Harpers Ferry from here.

Beautiful lighting today too.

LAUREN: So, we are just finishing up our whitewater rafting, we're doing, our last rapid was, like, a level, is a...

BOTH: Level three.

LAUREN: It was so fun.

LAURITA: It was a lot of fun.

We got a lot of water in the boat and on ourselves... LAUREN: Right.

Yes.

LAURITA: But I would totally do this again.

LAUREN: Oh.

100%.

10 out of 10 would recommend.

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