River Rat Chapter 18
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| Time frame | August 24–29, 1999 |
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Location
- From Soap Creek to Phantom Ranch in the Grand Canyon
Characters
- Jerry
- Dallas (a customer)
- Sandy Loveberry (a customer)
Summary
Scooter has a chat with Al, who is looking better. Al tells Scooter about the canyon romance he'd had with Karin 25 years earlier. Dallas, a guest on Scooter's raft, is swept overboard, but he hangs onto the raft so she is able to pull him back in. Later on, Scooter gets Dallas to do some rowing on the flat stretches, and Karin is also doing some rowing.
A few days later, Jerry falls while free climbing. Randy (who had just completed his EMT course a month before) is first on the scene; he, Crystal, and Sandy (a passenger that just happens to be a retired Emergency Room nurse) agree that Jerry has to be stretchered out to the rafts and helicoptered out to a hospital. Crystal tells Scooter to get everything reloaded, and gets Randy to row Jerry's raft. They do a speed run to Phantom Ranch. When they get to Phantom she runs for the telephone at the ranger station to call MedEvac. (compare with Chapter 69 of Dawnwalker ).
