Rafting Kern River at 10,000CFS! May 2023 

wow, that's crazy!

Everyone remembers their first swim lol

This is a great video! We did 3 laps of this area and had the same thing happen to me on Ewing's Rapid. The water is much lower, but still a class 3 in that area of the Kern. I was with younger boys and a couple didn't follow directions so well and were not paddling so we hit a rock and my son and I got thrown off. Didn't feel a thing until after I got back in the raft. I had cuts, and bruises and was bleeding on my knees and hands from the rocks. I was a little shaken up since it was the first time I had been thrown off a raft in rapids. My son and I were saved pretty quickly because we had a great guide with us. I didn't even notice the temperature of the water because the adrenalin was flowing like crazy when I was getting trashed around the rocks. Definitely a fun and scary trip haha.

Dang this is exactly what happen to me, my left shoe got taken of and i dont even remember the cold, the only difference was that our boat turned upside down and the instructor couldnt turn the boat so i swimmed 1 km. Before we got in the boat the instructor told us that if the river was flowing a bit harder that it then too dangerous would be, and yeah i found it pretty terrifying after i got somehow safe on a rock just when i was about to pass out lol...

thanks!

Class 4's are fun!! Yeah sketchy!

it really was!

thank you! That sounds awesome you got to do that as a job!

nobody went in

Marty is this you?

because the water is flowing so high and fast this year that there's a lot of sediment