...quick ride down. Maralee hitchhiked on a truck. She'd had enough of the horses. Next up? A boat ride in a tiny rubber raft down a very muddy river. The goal: to see wildlife. We gingerly stepped into the canvas-bottomed vessel, squeezed...

...too sick to sleep, but looking for a candy bar in the dark! The next morning the crew of the Tempest paddled their rubber raft to shore using a paddle and plastic shovel. We put Damian in the raft and they paddled back to the boat. The anchor...

...Tlingit fishermen. They alerted state officials and the media, then used a 60-foot beach seine net deployed from a rubber raft to catch five fish. They were charged with personal-use fishing without a permit. State troopers recorded the incident...

...the amount of trash, he said. Kissel and his wife Teresa made their first Whitehorse-to-Dawson trip in 1984 in a rubber raft and were impressed enough to bring their children on a canoe trip 10 years later. Concerned about safety, they discussed...