Well we’ve been having a ball whitewater rafting in the Philippines last week. Frankly it was a blast. We rode a grade 4 rapid in Mindanao. Southern Philppines just after a huge storm.
Whitewater rapids are rated on a scale of one through six, indicating the difficulty of each rapid at “normal” water level. The scale is a subjective one. While rapids are individually classed, rivers are given an overall classification that takes the whole stretch of river into account. As an example, the wilderness section of the Cagayan de Oro River has lots of Class IV rapids, but the overall classification is Class III and III+, indicating that a rafter with strong Class III skills would find the challenges OK. We went with the top crew from Rafting Cagayan De Oro (www.RaftingCDO.com)
