The UK may be home to some of the wildest stretches of white water in the world, but\u00a0white water rafting\u00a0isn\u2019t just confined to natural stretches of white water. Man-made centres which are used for the Olympics are tailor-made for rafting too, and unlike natural stretches of white water conditions out on the water is much more consistent.<\/p>\n
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There are different classes of white water…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Stretches of white water are graded by how difficult they are to negotiate. The International Scale of River Difficulty is graded from 1-6 with class 1 white water being the easiest to pass, and class 6 white water being almost impassable. Unless you\u2019re an experienced rafter, you\u2019ll mainly be taking on white water graded between 1-3 as this guarantees you plenty of fun without the risk of injury.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not just rapids you\u2019ll have to avoid…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n If you\u2019re taking on a natural stretch of white water, it\u2019s not just rapids you\u2019ll need to negotiate. You\u2019ll also have to dodge the danger of rocks, branches and river banks too. It\u2019s not all bad news though, because with our instructors skippering the raft you\u2019ll know exactly what\u2019s coming your way and what you need to do to make it down the river in one piece.<\/p>\n You\u2019re going to get wet…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Part of the fun of white water rafting is getting a good soaking, and even if you manage to stay in the raft you\u2019re going to get wet at some point. All of our venues provide wetsuits, helmets and life jackets, so when you inevitably get a soaking, there\u2019s no need to worry about ruining your clothes. It\u2019s probably for the best you bring a towel and some dry clothes to change into though!<\/p>\n If you’re feeling down in the dumps already this year you’re not alone. Christmas is a distant memory, the weather is cold and grey and the chances are you’ve abandoned your healthy New Year resolutions. In fact, the only thing likely to be lower than your mood is your bank balance. However, white water rafting… Read More Things You Didn’t Know About White Water Rafting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,142,37,5,402],"tags":[38,325,419,159,409],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bucket-list","category-extreme-sports","category-features","category-group-activities","category-white-water-rafting","tag-bucket-list","tag-extreme-sports-movies","tag-features","tag-group-activities","tag-white-water-rafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3255,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/3255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geronigo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}So, what are you waiting for? Why not find out first hand just how much fun white water rafting<\/a> is!<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"