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Photo: Aspiring river guides get a swim

Monday, May 9, 2016 5:58 AM
Updated: Monday, May 9, 2016 2:24 PM
Doug Ponce, rear of raft, a lead guide for Mountain Waters Rafting and lower Animas River manager of the River Guide School, steers into the Pocket at Smelter Rapid on Monday to purposely spill students during a river guide training program. Aspiring river guides get more than 50 hours of training.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald

Photo: Aspiring river guides get a swim

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Doug Ponce, rear of raft, a lead guide for Mountain Waters Rafting and lower Animas River manager of the River Guide School, steers into the Pocket at Smelter Rapid on Monday to purposely spill students during a river guide training program. Aspiring river guides get more than 50 hours of training.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald
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