The story of how a small-town boy from Wooster, Ohio, starts the first river rafting company in California and Oregon, invents the first fiberglass river kayak on the West Coast, the first self-bailing raft, and, at 97-years-of-age, becomes inducted into the InterNational Whitewater Hall of Fame.
“In the firmament of whitewater rafting and kayaking, Bryce Whitmore was my pole star. He led me and many other aspiring river guides to follow lives of riverine fervor. His first craft was a chunk of ice. His last was a wheelchair. In between, he traveled by kayak, raft, canoe, sailboat, roller skates, ice skates, downhill skis, bicycle, race car, and a dynamite-laden truck with worn-out brakes. He was unfettered by traditional modes of transportation and what we know today as "lifestyle." He did not have a style of living, he just lived, pedal to the metal.”
