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Totally tubular: Beat the heat by rafting rivers
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Floating on the Stanislaus River is a popular way to cool off during the summer months. Caswell Memorial State Park is often the end point for groups that put in upstream and make their way down on lazy afternoons. - photo by HIME ROMERO
RIPON – Water parks do a great job of copying it. The lazy, serene experience of sitting in a flotation tube and careening down a meandering river on a hot summer day. But chlorinated water and high prices take away some of the ambiance of what makes that entire experience great – like fishing out of an aquarium or hunting animals that have already been corralled into a pen.