Morning Read: Life, death on the Moose River
Mike Lynch, Outdoor Writer for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, has an amazing tale of the risks and the crisis that befell a group of whitewater paddlers earlier this month on the Moose River.
Paddlers from the Adirondacks were able to save one man from Rochester before he was swept over a dangerous ledge
“I looked at Luke and Ian above me,” [Jeff] Berger recalled. “They nodded that they were ready, and I just kind of jumped over the top of the boat into the water and they pulled me.”…
“They were amazing. I’ve never seen anything like that,” Berger said. “They were so quick, like they had done it a million times. They had all the bases covered immediately. I believe they probably saved my life.”
A second paddler, 62-year-old Bill De Angelis from New Jersey, died after his boat was swept into the same, deadly hydraulic.
Tags: adirondacks, outdoor recreation
