AMAZINGGGGGGG. Our guide was Helena. Yo, don’t judge a small person by their smallness… Helena is a knowledgeable badass. Not only did she steer a family of five (that would be us) into fast, bumpy and “a little splashy” fun-ness, but had absolute control the entire time… even when she made sure to dunk our three teenagers under water while they were still in the boat. Lol. We loved watching that cuz they were finally speechless and couldn’t talk $hiat.
Sidenote: While training to be a guide, Helena rescued an overturned raft of five people (not from River Rat, but another company’s raft), BY. HERSELF. She then took over THEIR raft, with their guide and those five people thru the rest of the adventure. This chick could wrestle a bear, I swear.
The whole River Rat crew is fantastic and I wouldn’t trust the safety of our kids with anyone else. If you book with them and see Helena, tell her her recommendation to cliff jump at the midnight hole was so much fun!