Ecuador- keep your season going.

We hope you’ve had a great spring and summer of paddling.  If you’re  not ready for it to end why not join us in Ecuador for one of our many offerings this winter.  We have a variety of trips for skill levels from class III+ to IV+.  Check out our website www.adventurekayaking.com for more details. Start dreaming today.

If it’s August it must be the Rogue, no wait, the Grand Canyon.

Our camp at Solitude on the lower Rogue River.

In what may be one of our quickest set of turn- arounds between trips we have spent less than twenty four hours at home.  We’re just back from two really great 4-day Rogue trips and we are now off to the Grand Canyon for two trips there.  We’ll be back the first part of October to write more about it. Gotta run (aren’t we lucky!).

Kayakers take in the sites while floating near Saddle Canyon, Grand Canyon.

Idaho- Land Of Change. Middle Fork Salmon July 3-8

Kayakers on a mellow section of the upper stretches of the Middle Fork Salmon- day one.

Between the weather and the folks that were along, our second trip on the Middle Fork was quite the variety pack.  While the West was strongly represented, we also had folks from as far away as Washington D.C., Wisconsin and Canada. There were several families, couples, friends, hardshell kayakers (long boats and short), inflatable kayakers and rafters, . We also had a good mix of ages, including a pod of youngsters, ages 16-21, that we affectionately referred to as the “pack of wolves”.

Once our bags were loaded onto the support rafts at Boundary Creek, we did our usual thing of dividing the hardshell kayakers into three groups, each with it’s own guide, so as to give us all plenty of room to move about the river and play.  That first day I had the wolves. This group of young, enthuisastic kayakers were all in play boats of one type or another.  Their motto seemed to be “leave no river feature untouched”. This was demonstrated as they zipped about the river in search of  the slightest hint of  play. Nothing was off limits; boofs, waves, holes, and given the chance, each other. My job that day was to keep the wolves at bay from the other groups and make sure they were “well fed” with play and challenges.

Hannas F., one of the pack, hits the boof at Ram's Horn.