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Archive Home > 2005 > August > 13 > River teaches a brutal lesson

River teaches a brutal lesson

Paddler plunged through rapids at Meadow Camp

By Yoko Minoura / The Bulletin
August 13, 2005

One year later, pink scars still visible on his forehead and jaw, Steve Welsh revisited the stretch of the Deschutes River that nearly killed him.

"It's very unsettling," he said, looking at the canal intake that he narrowly missed by tumbling over a waterfall. "I'll never look at....

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