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Article: Choose between rafting and rafting deluxe
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- February 18, 2007
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No one is standing pat at Class VI River Runners.
Founded in 1978, Class VI welcomed its 500,000th guest on the
river a few months back.
But the number of rafters who are coming has slipped over the last
dozen years, both locally on the New River and Gauley River and
nationally, said Lisa Gale, the company's marketing director.
"We all spend a lot of time and energy scratching our heads and
trying to figure that all out," Gale said. "We blame it on everything
from changing weather patterns to kids preferring to sit in front of
video games and people not getting outdoors when they were young."
Class VI took 22,000 rafters on the river last year, but its
managers know that the company's ...