With a healthy snowpack in the Sierras, the Kern River above Isabella Lake is running full and local businesses can take you for as much or as little adventure as you can handle. "Forty-five minutes ...

"That's our planned closing date." Rafting companies say whitewater enthusiasts from all over the world have been coming to the Kern River Valley this summer to experience one of the biggest water ...

UPPER KERN RIVER — Imagine racing down a steep river ... California is on the brink of a whitewater rafting season for the ages. Thanks to this year’s epic snowpack, some of the Golden State ...

But the exceedingly wet winter has returned the 165-mile Kern, California’s 10th-longest river and a favorite among whitewater rafting enthusiasts, to a power not seen in years. Fueled by runoff ...

One safe way to enjoy the river and its extra high flows is to contact a permitted white water rafting company. "The safest way and the number 1 way, and probably the best way to enjoy the Kern ...

Last year, he responded to his first commercial rafting rescue. This year, over Memorial Day weekend, deputies with the swiftwater rescue team were called to the Kern River by commercial rafting ...

but it's good news if your business is whitewater rafting. Joshua Yeager of member station KVPR takes us to the Sierra Nevada mountains on the upper Kern River. (SOUNDBITE OF WATER RUSHING ...

The Kern River has a reputation as a tempestuous beauty ... When he and his colleagues are not guiding rafting expeditions, they are training to safely lead visitors, scoping out where hazards ...

It's been nicknamed "The Killer Kern" and while it may look like a thrilling place to go whitewater rafting, travelers should be careful to take safety precautions when entering the river's ...

With a healthy snowpack in the Sierras, the Kern River above Isabella Lake is ... of Whitewater Voyages, one of several river rafting companies based in Kernville.

FORWARD. FORWARD.” Rafters negotiate churning rapids during an early-season rafting tour on the Upper Kern River. (Jack Dolan / Los Angeles Times) And then, as suddenly as it began, you exit the ...