Pigeons prove answer for whitewater dilemma

FORT COLLINS – What’s the fun of risking life and limb, or at least a good soak in glacier-fed river water, if you don’t have the photos to prove it?

That’s the question that Dave Costlow, co-owner of Fort Collins-based Rocky Mountain Adventures, kept asking his customers. Although Costlow’s stable of photographers waited along the banks of the Cache La Poudre River to catch whitewater rafters in mid-scream, by the time they were safely back on shore, few were willing to buy pictures sight-unseen.

Then a brainstorming session resulted in an innovative idea.

“We were thinking ‘if we could just have something like…