Not many people are aware of the fact that whitewater rafting was one of the earliest forms of travel on water and people that needed to go from one place to another used to indulge in whitewater rafting to move from one place to another. It is only in the eighties that this activity turned into a pleasure sport. In fact, it was actually the year 1811 that has the distinction of being the year in which the Snake River that is located in Wyoming was first traversed by indulging in what is now known as whitewater rafting by the Overland Astorians who could not go further from a place called Jackson Hole as the river was too treacherous.
Rubber Rafts
In the year 1840, the first river raft made from rubber was invented by a person called Lt. John Fremont who was US Army personnel and who along with Horace H. Day came up with the first such rubber. This raft was invented during the middle of the nineteenth century; however, its first commercial use only began at the end of that century. The first whitewater rafting rafts were actually surplus military ones and they served as boats for the military while the more modern inflatable rafts were only developed much later.
The credit for popularizing whitewater rafting goes to private companies, while in the year 1956 John D. Rockefeller came up with the idea of even building an entire lodge from where people could try their hand at whitewater rafting. Though the initial response to this offer was lukewarm at best, a decade later during the sixties and seventies many whitewater rafting companies were floated such as Becker-Cooke Expeditions as well as Slickrock Adventures that helped to popularize whitewater rafting.
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