Whitewater Rafting Hats

Whitewater rafting rates every rapid from Class I to Class VI, and Class VI is beyond commercial trips. The Gauley River in West Virginia was regarded as Class VI and unraftable until the 1960s. Today the Upper Gauley runs about 12 miles with more than 50 rapids, five of them Class V. Gauley season starts the Friday after Labor Day with 22 controlled dam releases, and GauleyFest in the third weekend of September bills itself as the world's largest whitewater festival. These whitewater rafting hats speak both ends of the paddle. The badges name the sport and the raft guide. The sentence designs borrow the guide's own register: RAFTS DON'T FLIP PEOPLE I DO turns the guide-school line that rafts don't flip people, people flip rafts, into a boast. LEFT SIDE BACK PADDLE I PANICKED starts from a real back-paddle command, HIGH SIDE! is the shout from the boat, and I FELL OUT OF THE RAFT FOR CONTENT is the swimmer's version. GAULEY SEASON is for the people who plan September around the dam releases. Funny Kayaking covers the river rat and the banjo jokes, and this collection is the raft: guides, swimmers and the crew in the boat. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Choose one for your raft guide, for your own crew, or for the trip you still tell people about.