Wet & wild!

(Look Ma, no camo!!!)

For approximately 1½ months every year, in late Summer and early Autumn, one of the world's best whitewater rafting experiences can be had in West Virginia...on the Gauley.

This is rated as one of the top ten whitewater rafting destinations on the planet, and it's the right time of the year, currently.
(No pun intended)

I've gone a number of times, always using West Virginia Adventures as my outfitter.

From their website:

"The most intense whitewater rafting available in the Eastern United States. This river is well known in West Virginia and is considered to be a world-class whitewater adventure. The Gauley River is available in September and October, when Summersville Lake is drained to winter levels. The Gauley River contains over one hundred rapids in a 26-mile section. It is rafted in two different sections, The Upper Gauley and The Lower Gauley, or both sections may be rafted on The Gauley Ironman Trip. The Gauley River is the true gem of whitewater rafting West Virginia has to offer."

I've done the Upper and Lower Gauley, in regular and "extreme" rafts, the latter being a smaller raft which is more profoundly affected by conditions.

I'd like to do the "Ironman" option someday, but I can never seem to get enough other people interested in that one; they require a minimum of six people to schedule it, but when "push comes to shove" there are never five other people in my circle of rafting aficianados willing to go for it.

The "Ironman" trip consists of doing the Upper and Lower Gauley (26 miles) in one day.

It is recommended that those who attempt the Gauley have previous whitewater rafting experience; West Virginia Adventures also runs whitewater rafting trips on the New River, which is less of a challenge.

I've gone there too, as well as a number of other places.

Here are some links:
Rafting America
Whitewater Rafting

There are plenty of others, too...