In late winter, raft guide hopefuls join an intensive training program to learn to navigate the nation’s only Class III/IV urban whitewater in Richmond, Virginia. Through trials, tough lessons, and sometimes dangerous adventures, a handful of the group become guides in time for the summer season, only for their journey to be interrupted by an environmental disaster affecting one of the featured rapids.
Ingrid Shannon
Narrator
In late winter, raft guide hopefuls join an intensive training program to learn to navigate the nation’s only Class III/IV urban whitewater in Richmond, Virginia. Through trials, tough lessons, and sometimes dangerous adventures, a handful of the group become guides in time for the summer season, only for their journey to be interrupted by an environmental disaster affecting one of the featured rapids.
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