In the middle of a riffle on the Madison River, Jackson Birrell is sprawled across river rocks, pushing all his weight on a metal bucket. He’s looking for bugs.

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I tried to keep my feet planted inside the raft, but my body flung into the air and collided with other rafters as we hit raging rapids. Adrenaline replaced the calm we had felt just minutes before.