MOAB, Utah — Two men have died while whitewater rafting on the Colorado River near the Colorado state line, a sheriff in Utah said Friday.
The Grand County Sheriff’s Office identified the men as 27-year-old Adam Ericksen of Bountiful, Utah, and 50-year-old Charles McLynch of Bay Shore, N.Y.
The men were riding in separate rafts on the river through 17-mile-long Westwater Canyon when their boats overturned Thursday afternoon, Sheriff Steven White said.
Other boaters pulled the men back into their rafts, but the men were unresponsive and were pronounced dead, White said.
The men’s bodies have been sent to the Utah state medical examiner’s office to determine the cause of death.
Westwater Canyon, a stretch of whitewater along the Colorado River in Utah, is a narrow section of the river with rough water, lots of rocks and steep cliffs on both sides.
