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There is still room on our annual trek to South America–join us this January on the fabulous Fu! The Futaleufu is truly a world-class river trip: turquoise, high-volumne water, an alpine canyon, and astonishing mountain views.   Add to that free-flowin’ […]

I love it when academia backs up the gospel we preach!  A recent NY Times article tells the tale of a group of bespecled professors setting aside their blackberries, cell phones, and iPads, and setting off for a multi-day raft […]

For many of us, the connection to California’s watersheds, rivers and streams is shaky at best–it’s hard to even understand how the water that comes out of your San Francisco kitchen faucet is connected to the Tuolumne River, or the […]

As one of only two outfitters that run Cherry Creek, we get a lot of interest from people who are looking for extreme adventure sports opportunities in California.  Sometimes it’s people who have done a lot of rafting and know […]

It may look like winter outside but we are in full springtime rafting mode. After a great first weekend with a bachelor party on the Tuolumne, and groups of friends and family on the North Fork of the American and […]

Meet Mr. Nash, one of the lynch-pins of our Tuolumne River operation!  Guiding for us since…..oh lord a long time I’m not even really sure……. Noah has guided basically all of our rivers over his career with us, ran our Merced […]

Where to start here with Colin?  The organic garden in a bathtub?  No, too typical.  Doesn’t set him apart.  Maybe the work with the orphanage in Nicaragua?  eh.  Again, nothing new there–so many people do that stuff.  The irrigation system […]

I cannot resist posting this awesome pic of one of our fabulous frequent floater Katie E and Co!  Holy cow this woman knows how to have a good time.  Even we office people sitting here isolated and stuck to our […]

Now that we’re in the middle of the rafting season our early summer rafting guide school seems far far away…….our most promising and motivated graduates have become familiar faces around the office as they continue to work on their training. […]

This could possibly be the ultimate whitewater trip for experienced river rafters in California: a combo trip on the Tuolumne River and Cherry Creek.  Ok ok I admit the Kern River has a pretty awesome range of sections and there are certainly […]