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My raft with its sole passenger is lined up perfectly for the brown, crashing current that’s fast approaching and less than one hundred yards downstream. We’re going to have to run the frothing mess, a reversal of flow that collapses back on itself in the middle of the rapid’s main wave train. Accepting our fate, I’m pushing on the oars to move us into Teepee, building momentum. In fact, a spectator happening on the scene at this instant might guess that I’d intended to run the hole all along. Forget that it’s a brisk morning when no one wants to get wet, half an hour before the sun will light the water and warm the canyon. Forget that a monster boulder lurks just beneath the hole. And never mind that for all the awake I feel, I should still be wrapped in my sleeping bag back in camp. We’re committed.  \nFrom experience, I know that Teepee is a keeper, a watery trap to be avoided anytime. The river dances in it like droplets in a hot pan, shaken and imprisoned. Boats that enter the hole share the fate of the water, becoming one with it. How will my passenger react when we drop into it? Will his head spin and eyes pop? Will he register anger, joy, surprise? He has the bulk of two men—can his weight carry us through if we land dead center in it? What if we flip and he has to swim?  \nWe charge over the brink of the hole and bump down with a jolt. For a moment we continue to track and it seems we’ll continue downriver with no problem. Praying we won’t be stopped, I keep working the oars to move us forward, dipping the blades quickly like the paddles of a windmill. A brief time passes in which I seem to be effective, until the boat gives a telltale shudder and abruptly halts. For one awful moment we hover, then we’re drawn backward toward the heart of the hole. There’s where the nasty business can occur—we may get sucked down, engage in endless spins, or overturn in a sudden, breathless flip.  \nMy passenger remains relaxed and facing downstream, as motionless asa mannequin. He seems to be unaware of our upstream creep, or he may consider it just part of the show. Or he too is still waking up; or he’s too petrified to move. I figure he’ll be alarmed, though, when I climb over the gear and walk past him to the nose of the boat. But no—when I do, he doesn’t react, as he doesn’t react visibly when I grab the front D-ring and step off the bow into the water. Quickly I lower myself into the cauldron of churning cur-  \n146 Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 13 (2), 2008  \nrent. Submerged except for my head and forearms, I hold tight to the D-ring with both hands. No way I’m letting go of it. My body and legs catch a tendril of current that’s streaming downriver, and the boat with passenger intact follows me out of the hole.  \nI climb back into the raft, wet but feeling heroic, finally awake.  \nThat evening in camp, my fellow guides congratulate me for the neat trick in Teepee. One guide especially is intrigued—Michael, an inquisitive person with an intense Van Gogh gaze. “Throwing out a human sea-anchor,” he says.“Where’d you learn to do that?”  \nI could reply,“At spring training, where the senior guides told me, ‘When you’re stuck in a hole, take the “C” train.’” Because they did tell me that.  \n“Meaning?” I’d asked my trainers.  \n“The current! Get something—anything—into that downstream current. It’ll pull you out.”  \nMy answer to Michael has to be more complex than that—it wasn’t enough for someone to simply instruct me. Rather, I had to give credit to a litany of killer holes that have claimed me or others before me: “Skull, Crystal, Phil’s Folly, Clavey, Warm Springs, Lava Falls, Satan’s Gut, Widowmaker—”  \n“Right,” Micha","cbCaisQx4wrnA6mh","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisQx4wrnA6mh","pdf",51202,"English","# Teepee Hole escape\n## The decision to run the rapid\n## The “C” train technique\n## Training, practice, and reflection","[{\"question\":\"What is Teepee Hole, and why does the narrator fear it?\",\"answer\":\"Teepee is described as a watery trap where boats can be swallowed, spun, or flipped. 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