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Chelsea Self / Post Independent
A red life preserver is securely fastened around Kansas City resident Kelly Gartman.
Murky water is rolling in at about 1,300 cubic feet per second, and she’s sitting portside amidship on a hard rubber raft capable of withstanding encounters with the jagged rocks dotting the Colorado River like petrified chunks of larger-than-life chocolate.
With her young daughter sitting at the portside bow and husband starboard, Gartman said she’s a little scared. The nervous greenhorn is about to christen herself in the Class-3 Shoshone Rapids, which snake and cascade through a ribbon of river recently invaded by massive mudslides due to torrential downpours.