your homie had a death wish. the american river got some class 4 rapids at least, I know I went on some class 3's when I went as a teenager with this youth group...that shit was hella fun until right towards the end, when the driver of the raft thought it would be fun to hit one of the rapids that shot up straight on so the raft would jump.....well we jumped alright, the nose of it went damn near at a 90 degree angle. the chick in front of me flew back onto me and my fist clenched around the tip of my oar smacked the woman behind me in her jaw which left a fat ass bruise, I twisted my ankle, the 2 girls across from me were coo but their dad flew out the raft as did the driver in the back ....then we slammed into some rock and got stuck....the dad was close to the raft but we had no clue where the driver was....we struggled to pull him into the raft cuz he was hella big but finally got him in....once we freed ourselves from the rock we all started saying "it better not be no big ass rapids after this and we ain't got nobody steering this shit"....luckily the river was flowing smoothly around the bend and then there was a big ass pool of water.....the driver was swept around the bend and picked up by one of the other rafts with us
the shit was fun tho, except for that....noone on the raft really smiled after that while we were going down the river until we saw the first raft in our convoy heading towards the shore and all of us got hella juiced and started hella rowing....lol