A good article on whitewater rafting.

If you are on a multi-day wilderness trip”—seven days on the Middle Fork of the Salmon, for instance—“the victim may have to be left for a later search party…Suppose the rescue is unsuccessful and the victim has been recovered. What do you do with a dead person, especially a friend?…if you are in the wilderness and far from help, you may have to bury it, either temporarily or permanently. In either case the grave must be marked…”

This brings back fond memories of my trip on the Salmon with the same outfitter. I wasn't a guide but 2/4 guides were my rafting mentors. After day two I got to float the rest of the river in an inflatable kayak because one of the tourists was incredibly stupid about floating through rapids. I did two rescues (neither technical) and will never forget the sight of an 18 foot raft with twelve people flipping in a rapid and then having to paddle in and do a rescue before they got washed into the next, huge, rapid.

It was interesting knowing that we had body bags as part of our gear.

Not that that was shared with the regular customers.