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		<title>Why Purple Boats?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jay Young Not many companies in the rafting game stand out as much as Songer does. I could roll off a litany of reasons, but I’ll just stick with the most visual of them—purple boats. A couple days ago, I was posting away on the Songer Facebook page, and I posed a trivia question—how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TimberTrek Aerial Adventure Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Songer's Len Hanger leads us through TimberTrek, AOTG's new system of obstacles, bridges, swings and zip lines between tree platforms at heights as high as 50 feet above the forest floor. ]]></description>
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		<title>New River Rock Climbing&#8230; in the Winter!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Between snowsports and hunkering down next to wood stoves, a hearty community of New River Gorge outdoor enthusiasts bides it time for gift days, when the sun shines strong and temps soar to spring/fall levels. ]]></description>
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		<title>A Drop in the Bucket</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The rafts we use today are pleasantly self bailing. The boat fills with water, but gravity drains it through a ring of small holes all around the floor. Things, however, were not always thus. ]]></description>
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		<title>Hank&#8217;s Last Ride</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hiram "Hank" Williams is honored in nearby Oak Hill, West Virginia, with a road that carries his name. Why Oak Hill, a mere 10 miles from Songer?]]></description>
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		<title>The Legend of Black Saturday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jay Young, Photo: M. Lewis Collection As a tow boat pulled his flotilla of rafts across Cheat Lake following their run down the Cheat River, raft guide and trip leader, Mark Lewis, surveyed his crew with tired eyes. To a person, they were silent. “There was just a lot of quiet reflection,” said Lewis. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Butcher of Babcock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deep in the woods at a secluded cabin—in a fit of passion—a man allegedly slays his wife, and to this day the ghoulish presence of the murder still makes itself known.]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s It Like to BASE Jump the New River Gorge Bridge?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Marcus Ellison stood rigged and ready for his first ever BASE jump from the New River Gorge Bridge, he thought, "This is kind of ludicrous." ]]></description>
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		<title>Our Hemlock Trees Are Under Siege</title>
		<description><![CDATA[West Virginia’s majestic hemlock trees are under attack by a tiny enemy.  The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA) is an invasive species that traveled from Asia to the U.S. in the 1950’s on imported Christmas trees. As it’s name implies this insect is has a white, fuzzy appearance like a tiny puff of cotton. These bugs suck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Do Double Z Rapid and Henry Ford Have in Common?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re not going to have any mail delivered to you while you&#8217;re rafting the Lower New River these days, but if you just happened to be running Double Z in 1873, you could have stopped mid-rapid to mail a postcard. Located just above the railroad tracks on the river right side of Double Z (one [...]]]></description>
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