June 21, 1985 The Tribune - By Riding the Crest of Whitewater Rafting El Sobrante, California -- at 38 Bill McGinnis is owner of Whitewater Voyages/River Exploration Ltd., a rapidly expanding rafting company running more rivers and carrying more passengers than any other California outfitter. Eleven years ago, the graduate of Ells High School and
July 1, 1984 River Runner - By David M. Bolling The local folks upstream in Cedar Flat, Del Loma and Big Bar get suddenly serious when you talk about taking rafts into the Gorge. And if you're a compulsive river-reader, you'll run your eye up and down the visible stretches of that jumble of rock
June 27, 1979 San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle - By Travel Writer Dick Alexander When Bill McGinnis was a boy in the East Bay he walked the ditches when it rained, instead of the sidewalks. There's nothing particularly unique about that. We've all done it, I guess, sometimes getting swatted for having wet feet -
March 23, 1977 News Herald, Santa Rosa, California - By Gulon M. Kovner Change the "quiet desperation" Thoreau applied to most men's lives to quiet determination for William McGinnis. Four years ago, he decided to write a book about whitewater rafting, a sport he had pursued for nine years. McGinnis shot his lanky body up
March 23, 1977 News Herald, Santa Rosa, California - By Gulon M. Kovner Change the "quiet desperation" Thoreau applied to most men's lives to quiet determination for William McGinnis. Four years ago, he decided to write a book about whitewater rafting, a sport he had pursued for nine years. McGinnis shot his lanky body up
October 5, 1975 San Francisco Chronicle - Reviewed by Stanleigh Arnold Whitewater Rafting, by William McGinnis. New York Times Quadrangle 361 pages, Whitewater may seem far removed from desert sand or mountain granite, it its impact on the sensibilities may be remarkably similar. And not only upon the emotions, either -- all these inspire in
June 30, 1975 Oakland Tribune - By Richard Spencer Tribune Staff Writer RICHMOND -- Almost 3,200 miles the Yangtze flows, winding eastward from the Tibetan plateau through the bulk of mainland China before blending with the Huang Hai, the Yellow Sea of the north Pacific Ocean. It is this river that presents the challenge now