Rafting companies running the Lower Canyon of the Kicking Horse River have come up with a creative solution to their loss of access to the iconic stretch of whitewater and are now using helicopters to airlift clients, boats and guides up and over Canadian Pacific railway tracks paralleling the river.

The rail company had earlier this springs told the rafting companies using the river, including Radium Hot Springs-based Kootenay River Runners, that they would not longer be allowed to simply walk across the tracks, as they had done for decades, because of the trespassing and liability associated with that.

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