Kern River Tours Inc

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If you like being lied to, you'll love this trip!



My friends and I are moderate thrill seekers. We first called up kern river tours and wanted to go on thrilling day of white water rapids on the kern river. We tried to book their more adventurous "thunder run" day trip. We were told that they were not running the thunder run and offered the "gusto" run as comparable alternative. to say that it was a thrill-less waste of money would be an understatement. Our guide "gravy" a 40 year old burn out, toiled with us, lying and telling us we were in for a "rocking roll good time" (his words, not mine). He kept blabbing on about stuff that made no sense and luring us to believe that our next set of rapids would be epic "class 4", he said, and it was something we could've gone down on a inner tube. The biggest thing that irritated our group was he made out our trip to be something that was it definetly was not. At times blaming persons in our boat for the mistakes that he had made himself. (by getting us stuck in trees; I'm sorry but one person paddling one time without him saying is not gonna fling the raft to the other side of the river into a set of low lying trees.) that's just ridiculous. Just when we thought it was going to get interesting we make it to a rapid that looked pretty sweet, we had to dock our boat and walk around it. Apparently is was too dangerous, but looking at it it looked challenging but not undo able. According to our guide Gravy it was "certain death" class 6, which is a bunch of bull. Our group had lost interest in the trip by lunchtime realizing that it was not going to get any better. Bottom line know what your getting into because listening to them your going to be persuaded into doing something you don't want to do. They over exaggeratted everything. Our 3 ft drops were 9ft drops out of their mouths and so on. So myself and 4 other friends dropped 220 dollars a piece to go down something less thrilling than the rapid ride at magic mountain.