...went white water rafting for the first time. We had been spending some of our summer vacation at a cabin in the Smokey Mountains, close to Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The next day we would experience feelings of exhilarating excitement, with a sense of suspense and anticipation as we rafted down the Nantahala River. I recall in vivid detail the scenery around us as we Adventures on the Rapids Adventures on the Rapids "This could be your last meal," my mother jokingly said before we left that day. The day was bright, and the sun gleaming. ... embarked on our perilous journey down the Nantahala. We arrived at the drop-off point in the early afternoon the next day. The sweet smell of fresh pine trees was floating in the air and a soft midsummer breeze was brushing against our faces. After receiving directions and safety precautions from our rafting instructor, we geared up, boarded our raft, and set out for our voyage down the treacherous Nantahala. Sharing the experience with me were my mother, aunt, uncle, and Adventures On The Rapids Adventures on the Rapids "This could be your last meal," my mother jokingly said before we left that day. The day was bright, and the sun gleaming. The group ... cousin ;along with out rafting guide. We were all ready for a fun and safe ride down the Nantahala. As we started to slowly drift down the river, seemingly inch by inch, I began to have feelings of disappointment. I had been planning on a more hazardous and fast-paced ride. The water was...
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...River Rafting Location, Evaluation, and Analysis Lynn Lee, Gail Rickey, Brenda Wilson-Stringer ACC/543 Managerial Accounting & Legal Aspects of Business February 10, 2014 Fred Johnston River Rafting Location, Evaluation, and Analysis White water rafting has exploded into an adventure sport in the last 10 years. This explosion has broadened the business market for rafting companies in Florida, Kentucky, and California. In order to open, a new rafting business research must be conducted on the legal ramifications pertinent to the area. The direct concern are the legal aspects of real property, personal property, business insurance, and environmental issues and regulations. Evaluate the Legal Aspects of Acquiring, Holding, and Disposing of Real Property The River-Rafting Business is real property, which consist of a riverbed, and banks that are state property. It is considered public property if the river is physically navigable. Public property does not abide by the rules of real property. Cheeseman (2007) stated, “Real property is immovable or attached to immovable land or buildings, whereas personal property is movable” (p. 755). Real property plays an important role in the United States (U. S.) economy of property and ownership rights. The real property concept is concerned with the legal rights of property as opposed to the physical attributes of tangible land. Real property consisted of items of personal property...
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...We offer rafting devotees – from tenderfoots to specialists - top quality half to multi-day whitewater rafting stumbles on the most famous waterways in Nepal. Mountain River rafting gives numerous years proficient managing knowledge in kayaking and rafters downriver. Regardless of in case you're new to rafting, regardless of in the event that you go for a few hours, or a few days, and regardless of on the off chance that you can go close or a long way from home, you're certain to locate the ideal rafting excursion right...
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...Rafting Water. It seems like such a simple word. Add freezing and training to that and you get my training for my summer job. This past summer I worked at North Woods Rafting as a white water raft guide. Before I could officially call myself a guide I had to go through training, but this wasn’t the ordinary show up watch a video and then attend a CPR class type of training. Well, we did watch a video and take a CPR certification class, but there was much more to it. On the first day of training I arrived at 7 am on a cold May morning. Now for most people May is a month where the weather is usually nice and warm, but I live in northern New Hampshire. Here that May day was barely 36 degrees and the water temperature wasn’t any different. We were shown a video and sized to receive our guide gear. After struggling into a wetsuit and layering on as much fleece as possible we were read; albeit slight reluctant to begin training. The first bit of training was rafts themselves. We were taught how to open and close valve and the terminology that goes with the rafts. We were shown how to blow up the boats and how to tell when they were done. A few facts were thrown into the mix also. For example did you know that most river rafts alone weigh around 200 pounds? Also if you leave a fully inflated raft in the sun the heat would cause the chambers to expand and eventually explode! Next we loaded up the trailer and headed to the Pontook Dam on the Androscoggin...
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...Water. It seems like such a simple word. Add freezing and training to that and you get my training for my summer job. This past summer I worked at North Woods Rafting as a white water raft guide. Before I could officially call myself a guide I had to go through training, but this wasn’t the ordinary show up watch a video and then attend a CPR class type of training. Well, we did watch a video and take a CPR certification class, but there was much more to it. On the first day of training I arrived at 7 am on a cold May morning. Now for most people May is a month where the weather is usually nice and warm, but I live in northern New Hampshire. Here that May day was barely 36 degrees and the water temperature wasn’t any different. We were shown a video and sized to receive our guide gear. After struggling into a wetsuit and layering on as much fleece as possible we were read; albeit slight reluctant to begin training. The first bit of training was rafts themselves. We were taught how to open and close valve and the terminology that goes with the rafts. We were shown how to blow up the boats and how to tell when they were done. A few facts were thrown into the mix also. For example did you know that most river rafts alone weigh around 200 pounds? Also if you leave a fully inflated raft in the sun the heat would cause the chambers to expand and eventually explode! Next we loaded up the trailer and headed to the Pontook Dam on the Androscoggin River. The senior...
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...The Sopranos, drugs, and mobs, just a few things people think of when they think of “Dirty Jersey,” except of course the people, like me who reside in this beautiful state. Out-of-Staters imagine smoke stacks, tall buildings, city streets and thick “joisy” accents. Not exactly a flattering image if you ask me. This proves very annoying to the average “Joisyian” and it’s not true to any extent. Asking my friends what they thought about Jersey, I got the following response: “it smells, there are beaches… North Jersey is dirty and South Jersey is for rich people” another common reaction was “New York wannabe” and “Pennsylvanians garbage goes there”. I don’t quite understand why people have this opinion, but I certainly do not agree with it on any level. A major consensus remains that Jersey should be taken off the map! But why? To me all this prejudice toward Jersey never seemed to make any sense. Just as Jon Bon Jovi, Whitney Huston, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Springsteen do, I call the beautiful state of New Jersey home. I’m sure Frank, Bruce, Jon and Whitney don’t appreciate the bad reputation that Jersey gets for what ever the reason may be either. Some interesting trivia information: The Statue of Liberty actually is placed on New Jersey territory. So take that New Yorkers! All those pins and “I love NY” shirts with Lady Liberty on them are all wrong. “I love NJ” that’s right I said it, I DO LOVE NJ. Some people believe that New Jersey has a lot of malls, if this is...
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...1. Executive Summary Blaze Mountain Travel and Tours is a reliable, professional and experienced tour operator led by a group of young people. The team has devoted themselves to the tourism industry for 5 years. The company has designed tours for both the older tourists and young student tourists. The primary goal is to provide excellent service to our/your client. The company ensures that the client will have the experience of lifetime. The environment in which it operates can be summarized as following: • Tourism year 2011 in Nepal. • Increasing popularity of concepts like ecotourism, community tourism, sustainable tourism, corporate social responsibility and e-ticketing in the western parts of our world. • Sustained instability in Nepalese politics having detrimental effects on Nepalese tourism industry. • Economic recession and global financial crisis curtailing the consumption of people all over the world having its spillover effects in Nepalese tourism industry as well. • Innovative business model of Blaze Mountain that is based on attracting GITs (Group Individual Tourists) through strategic tie-ups with foreign travel agencies. • A network of value chain partners who share their business with each other and strive towards creating and maintaining similar standards of performance – another innovation of Blaze Mountain that is quite unprecedented in the market. The product and price strategy of Blaze Mountain will basically involve designing products as per the...
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...the mountain Keep hope alive! page 4 page 6 page 8 These texts look at different kinds of challenges, from taking part in extreme sports to experiences that change the way people think. They also explore how facing a challenge can inspire people. Facing the challenge FTC_booklet_282644.indd 3 3 12/12/07 2:18:04 pm In this article, Louise Rogers tries to understand why young people are attracted to extreme sports. You can now go deep sea diving without oxygen and do parachute jumping from space. These activities are apparently some of the latest examples of extreme sports. They certainly sound extremely dangerous, and it’s tempting to call them extremely stupid too. You begin to wonder what people will do next: white water rafting without the raft? Skateboarding down Everest? What exactly are extreme sports anyway? According to sports expert Angie Naidoo, they are action sports usually done by someone on their own rather than in a team. ‘Extreme sports involve more than one of the following: speed, height, danger or spectacular stunts,’ explains Angie. ‘They are also often about challenging some aspect of the natural world, whether it’s defying gravity or scaling a very high mountain. They are not all as extreme as parachuting from space! And extreme sports are not just a recent trend either: skiing, skateboarding, in-line skating and mountain biking are all examples of extreme sports that people have done for years.’ Moreover, these sports are becoming more...
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...Jake Livingston Mrs. Niel English composition 101 MW 1-12:30 9-10-11 Underneath the Rapids “Jake, come and eat before your brothers eat everything!” It was another gorgeous morning in the West Virginian Mountains. My parents decided that we all needed to bond a little more as a family, so they planned for us all to go on a family vacation. This wasn’t such a terrible idea seeing as how my brothers seemed to hate me, as all older brothers hate their snitch little brothers. They decided that a white water rafting trip seemed like a fun idea for the boys. My sister had to stay home because she was pregnant with her first child. So off we went in the summer of 2005, to good ole’ West Virginia. I was 12 at the time, while my older brothers, Nate and Nick, were 19 and 17. Nate was a two time convicted felon who loved to drink at the time. His life wasn’t exactly going down the right path and my parents wanted to try and connect with him more. Nick on the other hand was a pretty nice kid who was well liked in the community, he had his secrets though. Nick loved to sneak out and go to girl’s houses late at night, I was fortunate enough to share a room with him. Every time he would sneak out when I was still awake, I would tell my parents. I don’t know why I did this to my own older brother; I guess I just liked the attention. He would know it was me and beat me up for betraying him, which would inevitably end up in even more trouble for him. So as you can guess he didn’t like...
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...The regions that the Locust River is located in is the Piedmont Region. This regions is on the Fail Line meaning it has rapids that were attractive to settlers. People now a days can go white water rafting in this area. These are some of the hardest rapids to raft on in the state of Alabama. The Locust River is runs through part of the Appalachian Mountain Range. This contrast with the low and flat topography of the Coastal South where the Suwanee River is located. There are many swaps, lakes, and coastal marshes around the Suwanee River area because of the poor drainage. The Suwannee has rapids as well that are located several miles upstream from the city of White Spring. The two rivers are also located on different plains. The Suwanee River...
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...The Buffalo National River The Buffalo National River begins as a trickle in the Boston Mountains, where it flows north and then eastward through the Ozark Mountains until it merges 150 miles later with the White River at Buffalo City. The upper Buffalo offers the river’s finest scenic beauty. With its massive, towering bluffs, countless waterfalls, watchable wildlife, ties to both historic and prehistoric cultures, and remote, unspoiled location, the upper Buffalo National River wilderness is surely mid-America’s finest outdoor destination. In fact, the entire river is such a special place that in 1972, Congress designated it as America’s first national river. This unique status protects the Buffalo from commercial or residential development, along with other destructive operations such as damming and gravel mining, thus preserving its scenic beauty and natural wild state forever. Floating Season The floating season on the upper Buffalo (Ponca to Pruitt) is March through June, with early July floating a possibility on occasion. The Buffalo is primarily dependent upon rainfall for its water level, so once the rains of spring and early summer have passed, so has the chance to float the upper section. (Hiking, however, is great year-round, as is trail riding!) SPECIAL NOTE: As a river preservation measure, the National Park Service limits the number of rental boats that can be launched on any given day. Therefore, if you are planning a weekend float, it is wise to reserve...
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...Read the three texts printed on the following pages. These texts are linked by the subject matter, which is rivers. Text A is a part of a conversation. Text B is a poem by Stevie Smith entitled The River God. Text C is an extract from an autobiography by Rory McGrath. Compare Texts A, B and C, showing how the writers or speakers express their feelings about the rivers and their surroundings through their descriptions. The three texts all share the similar theme of rivers, all sharing mixed feeling on the topic of rivers, but mostly positive feelings towards them. Although all of the texts have certain aspects that they have in common with each other, as all texts have taken different approaches from each other for example, text A is a spoken account between two people on the subject of rivers, text B is a poem to display the power of rivers, and text C is an extract that describes the writers personal experience on the river Cam, and it was created to entertain with the main focus being on bird watching. Texts A, B and C all share in common the use of positive adjectives throughout the texts in order to display how they feel about rivers, and they use these adjectives to display how they feel, for example text A uses the adjective ‘beautiful’ when describing the river and how it looks, this also stress’ the view of the writer more through the emphasis that is used on this utterance. In text B we can see a similar use of the adjectives when talking about the...
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...BIRD WATCHING Sri Lanka is considered to be an Ornithologist’s site due to abundance in bird life. A population of 444 bird species has been recorded and out of this number, 250 are resident, 33 endemic and the rest are Migrants. Sinharaja rainforest famously known Sinharaja Bird Wave is a place where moderately tame birds of all species are found. It is recognized by UNESCO as a world heritage site. Other places of interest include Kitugala, Udawatta Kale, Minipe, Minneriya Forests as well as Kumana, Bundala, Willpattu, Bellanwila Bird Sanctuaries. WORLD LARGEST BLUE WHALE COLONY Blue whales worldwide are known to migrate great distances unlike the ones in Sri Lanka trip guarantees a better experience. This could involve dressing in either shorts or long pants, whichever makes you more comfortable. Take a sunscreen lotion, a camera, a pair of binoculars as you are going to be out in the ocean for quite some time and you will need protection against harmful sun rays while enjoying the view and documenting for reference. If you have a history of feeling nauseated, take necessary precaution before the trip. The safety gear is provided onboard by the crew taking you on the trip on a rather choppy boat. The best time to quench your thirst for the adventure is in the morning though afternoon trips also work well for some individuals. Checking the weather conditions prior the trip is also advisable to avoid getting caught up in a storm in the sea. This is not always likely to happen...
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...I can go to a park at home a see a small waterfall going into a pond with ducks swimming all around; but in the mountains I can go and watch a large majestic waterfall as the water rushes down the mountain in individual streams carrying fish through the loops and curves of the landscape. It is so enjoyable whenever I can get a glimpse of families white water rafting, and seeing the fun they are having bonding together, because it makes me enjoying the hiking with my own family even...
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...Fiji Island is a “pearl” embedded in the South Pacific Ocean. With thick tropical trees shading the cool sands, white beaches glistening in the sun, and colored ocean water accompanying grotesque coral reefs and fish, you will be amazed by the vitality and brightness of Fiji, an island full of imagination. With an official language of English, Fiji welcomes tourists all around the world. Housing Fiji is a suitable place for water sports due to its island location: golf, scuba-diving, cross-country adventure, bamboo rafting, yacht cruising, etc. Fiji has a tropical marine climate which is warm year round, with an average temperature of 22 掳C, so the houses are wooden and ventilated to lower the temperature. Belief and Taboo Fiji people are...
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