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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 […]

Our founding father George Armstrong was featured in the July-August issue of Walnut Creek Magazine.  Here’s part of the article: George Armstrong, Founder and Owner of All Outdoors rafting Co. came to Walnut Creek way back in 1953. At that […]

Now that we’ve had a little more time to crunch the numbers I have an update for you about how the recent storms are affecting California rivers. As you know already, we had wild water on a number of rivers […]

All-Outdoors is featured in an exhibit on Climate Change at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park!  We’ve known about this for some time but for some reason never thought to mention it to you, dear reader. A […]

This January, local conservation group the American River Conservancy, aquired a key new swath of land for its American River Trail project–a series of public use trails that follow the South Fork of the American River from Coloma down to the […]

Lenka is a rare bird, both exotic and practical. She was born in the Czech Republic so she brings Eastern European flair to our Walnut Creek office–and she also keeps it in top form with her impeccable attention to detail. […]

 The Auburn Dam saga I’ve been writing about recently is just one of many such controversies over dams, water rights, flood control, and conservation issues raging all over the West.  One particulary sticky one involving all the standard issues PLUS […]

I recently did a two-day trip on the Tuolumne River, and as Lynsey and I greeted guests in the morning I realized all four groups on our trips were families–we had brother-in-laws, moms, dads, and kids ranging from 12 to […]