Adventure recreation and tourism now includes older participants. To take advantage of this growing market sector, tour operators need to know how they are affected by ageing. Here I use posts on a large but specialised social media site to provide relevant textual data, analysed using standard qualitative methods. Three main approaches are identified: maintaining skills and capabilities as long as possible, through training, warm-ups, and painkillers; adjusting to reduced capability, e.g. by paddling warmer and easier rivers and adopting easy-to-use equipment; and accepting reduced capability, by enjoying other aspects of white-water rivers, such as nature and social components.