Brawl on the Matanuska - Soul Rafter ep. 10

Finding a good rafting partner can be challenging. When you raft as an R2 (with only two people in the boat) a few bad decisions can mean disaster for the team and destroy friendships. So when Rafting Magazine ambassador Nick Prete decided to take a new R2ing partner rafting down the Lion's Head section of the Matanuska River in Glacier View, AK. He ends up getting more than he bargained for..
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Assistant producer and additional footage provided by Juniper Rose.
Additional footage also provided by Sarah Lindsay.

[@mtnbums2000]

I’ve only found one R2 partner that reads like me and that’s my brother. We were introduced to rafting in 1981 by our Dad who canoed all over the southeast. I was 10 and my brother was 7 at the time and the chemistry was formed at a young age. We still R2 together but I prefer to R1 nowadays and he enjoys R3 with his two boys.

[@SoulRafter]

That's awesome! Yeah the bond between brothers can be a strong one. It is certainly would be hard to find one as good as someone you've been paddling with for that long!