Dave LaCourse wrote:
I had an acquaintance who drowned while wading about 1/2 mile below the
Lake Francis Dam in Pittsburg, NH, where the Connecticut River
begins. He was notorious for taking chances wading (on the Rapid
River) and apparently was in deep water when they released the dam.
They found his body down river. But, his is the only death I have
ever heard about because of wading, and I think he probably was doing
something foolish.

Somebody died in the Deerfield last year while wading. Damn, I wish I could
remember his name - he wrote an excellent outdoors newsletter that was
distributed all over Western Mass. George - do you know who I'm talking
about? He got a foot stuck under a rock and the current pinned him to the
bottom (at least that's the version I heard). Keeping your feet downstream
and raised is the way to avoid getting trapped like that - riverman can
probably tell some stories...

You might also remember that a kid got seriously injured the same way lower
down the Deerfield at a summer camp maybe 3-4 years ago.
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