Great place for the whole family!
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 4/9/10
We strive to provide the best possible service in the paddlesports industry. We work very hard at it and take it very serious. We also love our river (Hocking River). So, we do take it personally when we see a negative review for our business, especially after we read it and very easily determine this guy is an. Wildlife? Turtles, Great Blue Heron, deer, Osprey, river otter, beaver and muskrat are some of animals we see on a regular basis, no they don't swim up to the canoe or stand on a rock so you can get that perfect picture, you have to look for them!! Hence the name "wildlife". What did this guy expect? A petting Zoo on the river.
Yes, you have to get out of your canoe to see the natural Rockbridge, what an awesome formation! Unfortunately we don't have what would possibly be North Americas own rock arch going over a navigable waterway!
Litter, yes you do unfortunately see some, just like the roadways. We do regular river cleanups to help this problem and also give what we call a trash refund when our guests bring back any litter they may see while on their float trip. These great people are part of the solution and not just complaining about it. We should all do our part.
Please forgive the negative tone of these paragraphs but when I read this from SSG C (I'm a veteran as well)it angered me, I tried in vain many times to get yahoo to remove it but they just send out a generic e-mail thanking me for my time. Unfortunately anybody can write a review even if it is not based on logical assumptions. If we do something wrong and get a negative review then we deserve it, but I feel like this guys perception of a canoe trip is based on a Disney movie and is not fair to us, besides some people are just negative and everything is a bummer to them, to those people- Don't bring the rest of us down in your pit of negativity!
Thanks everyone and we hope to see you on the river!
Aaron Fox