{"id":9043,"date":"2020-10-28T16:03:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T23:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aorafting.com\/blog\/?p=9043"},"modified":"2026-01-09T16:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:04:09","slug":"a-look-back-at-the-2020-rafting-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aorafting.com\/blog\/a-look-back-at-the-2020-rafting-season\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back at the 2020 Rafting Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>\r\n<i class=\"fa-regular fa-clock\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i> <span class=\"bsf-rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"bsf-rt-display-label\" prefix=\"Reading Time\">\n\t\t<\/span> <span class=\"bsf-rt-display-time\" reading_time=\"3\"><\/span> \n\t\t<span class=\"bsf-rt-display-postfix\" postfix=\"mins\"><\/span><\/span>\r\n<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:20px\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>To the All-Outdoors extended rafting family,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First and foremost we want to say \u201cTHANK YOU\u201d!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With your help and the help of our awesome employees, together we pulled off a short and sweet season when we all needed it most. All of us will never forget the year 2020 for many reasons, but thanks to you and so many others, the rafting season will always be remembered as a healthy relief in the midst of many difficult challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:20px\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"su-youtube su-u-responsive-media-yes\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5hugMsFVHbo?\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture\" title=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:20px\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-unprecedented-times\">Unprecedented Times<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As with so many things in 2020, the rafting season was nothing like any in the previous 58 years. Since we began exploring and running California rivers as a young family in 1962, we have been through some very interesting times involving record snowpack and record high flows, droughts and fires, economic downturns and economic upturns, but we have never been through a pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In early March, several weeks before we were to open, it became clear that the corona virus was a serious situation for our world, our country, our state, and our local counties. We braced ourselves for an unusual rafting season not knowing if it would even happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-rafting-season-like-no-other\">A Rafting Season Like No Other<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aorafting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/trouble-maker-july-2020.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aorafting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/trouble-maker-july-2020-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aorafting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/trouble-maker-july-2020-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aorafting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/trouble-maker-july-2020-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.aorafting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/trouble-maker-july-2020.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>We spent the first three months of the season shut down due to restrictions. During this time we worked with governmental agencies to see if there was a way that people like you could go rafting while minimizing the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, in mid-June we got the green light from the state and counties. In late June we conducted several successful \u201cCovid sensitive rafting trips\u201d using governmental prescribed measures of protection and protocol, and on July 1 we officially opened up. Masks were made mandatory whenever appropriate. Each guest in each raft was from their own social bubble and the number of people in rafts and on trips were reduced. You had your own \u201cprivate raft and guide\u201d all day long, and carried your own, pre-ordered bag lunch to make sure that meal was not a group event as it has been on trips for nearly 60 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result of the added resources required to pull off trips during a pandemic we had to limit the number of rivers we could operate on in 2020. We had already missed our 5 wonderful, free-flowing springtime rivers (no reservoirs above the runs), prior to the season due to the delayed start, but then had to make the difficult decision to eliminate two spectacular dam-controlled rivers, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aorafting.com\/river\/tuolumne\/welcome.htm\">Tuolumne<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aorafting.com\/river\/cherry-creek\/welcome.htm\">Cherry Creek<\/a>. We concentrated all of our resources on the two most popular rivers, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aorafting.com\/river\/south-fork-american\/welcome.htm\">South Fork<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aorafting.com\/river\/middle-fork-american\/welcome.htm\">Middle Fork of the American River<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-so-how-did-it-all-turn-out\">So How Did it All Turn Out?<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aorafting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/017_tuolumne.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aorafting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/017_tuolumne-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aorafting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/017_tuolumne-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.aorafting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/017_tuolumne.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Really well, and might we say, way better than we could ever imagine! We did our part by getting everything ready to make it happen. You did your part by stepping away from home and driving up and joining us for a day, two days, or three days and we all had a blast! Words like \u201cintimate\u201d, \u201cprivate\u201d, \u201dspecial\u201d, \u201cneeded\u201d have been used by guests and guides to describe their trips this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you, thank you, thank you for being such an integral part of a successful and memorable 2020 rafting season, despite the challenges! We worked together&#8230;You trusted us and we trusted you and as a result we made and enjoyed a rafting season that would not have happened otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a celebration and a way to raise the glass to you and to our employees, we have put together the special video above \u201cA Look Back at the 2020 Rafting Season\u201d. 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