The '10 California Rivers' Category Archive


The Big Game of Predicting California Water Flows for 2007

Hi. I am Gregg Armstrong, co-owner and founder of All-Outdoors California Whitewater Rafting. One of my many responsibilities over the years has been to watch California’s rainfall and snow pack totals to determine and predict what the rafting season will […]

AO Gives Our Most-Frequent Floaters a Chance to Get To Know Each Other

We’ve talked about it for years, saying what a shame it was that “Bob” and “Joe” have never been on the same trip together, because they’re both pretty neat guys and apparently love rafting almost as much as we do. […]

A New Generation of Cherry Creek Guides Stepping It Up

Cherry Creek… fourteen Class V rapids, 200 feet of elevation lost in one mile… one of the most intimidating and exhilerating rivers to raft on. And that’s if you’re paddling. The thought of having to make all the decisions of […]

The Boat That Wouldn’t Budge

Wrap (n): The less-than-ideal situation in which a boat is held against a rock or boulder in the river for an indeterminant amount of time by the force of the current. When I and seven other guides got to the […]

Backpacking In the Middle Fork American River Canyon

About a month ago, when the water was still extremely high and the weather a little bit wetter, Kevin Elardi decided to spend a weekend exploring the Middle Fork American River Canyon during a time of year in which it’s […]

Where All The Wildflowers Grow

When I was a kid, my German mother asked me once, “Do you think you’ll be an American citizen your whole life or do you think you’ll want to move to Germany or somewhere else?” I looked at her incredulously, […]

 
 

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