The AO Current

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 […]

With a big storm rolling in to California (which we are quite happy about…let it rain and snow!), it’s easy to forget that just a couple days ago the weather was warm, the sun was shining, and the wildflowers were […]

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 […]

 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 […]

  Despite freezing cold temperatures, muddy roads, and the more important fact that there are only about 100 cubic feet per second of water flowing downstream, I am still inextricably drawn to the river! What with the holiday season, and […]

This is a rafting video from the Middle Fork American 2-Day Trip on July 21-22, 2007. The video is a great example of how much fun a 2-day bachelor party rafting trip can be. They were able to get an […]

For a long time now, All Outdoors has been providing inflatable kayaks for our guests on Middle Fork American River 2 and 3-day trips. “Duckies,” as we sometimes affectionately call them, are a great way for people to try out […]

For a while there in the beginning of June, flows into the Tuolumne out of Cherry Creek were hovering somewhere around 2000 cfs. This may not mean anything to most of you, but 2000 cfs used to be the magic […]

Video from last Saturday’s rafting trip on the North Fork American River: