Author Archive

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 […]

With a voice as big as All-Outdoors, Beth makes her presence known.  Whether she’s rockin’ the dance floor, leading a river trip, or hanging out with friends, her good humor and love of life is impossible to miss.  On the […]

Joe came to All-Outdoors from the snowy slopes of Colorado ski resorts. Apparently he wanted to get a tan after all that time in a parka……Whatever the reason, he joined us a few years ago and pretty much became indispensable […]

Cupid’s summer home must be the clouds above our River Office because we have some serious love goin’ on around here, love that has turned into over 20 AO marriages, and a veritable pre-school of future river guides. Veteran guide […]