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AO Guides Overnight It in the New River Gorge
Background Info on the New River: California’s New River is a tributary to the better-known Trinity River, flowing out of the majestic Trinity Alps and dropping in to the Trinity at the end of a...
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High Water in the South Fork Gorge
The slightly skewed deductive reasoning skills of a raft guide: It is cold, pounding rain, and there are flood warnings on the radio telling people to stay on higher ground. Therefore… It is the...
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The Shortest Swim Ever
This last Saturday, Randy and Scott Armstrong organized a fun guides trip down the North Fork of the American River. The point was mainly to have a good time, but also to see what the river behaved...
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Strange Animals, Lead Feet and Contagious Tents- Our First Weekend Back on...
On Friday night, it took hours to get any food or service at our favorite restaurant in town, and strange animals started making noises at three in the morning. Then on Saturday, Brook “Lead Foot”...
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Women’s Rugby Team Proves Rowdier Than College Fraternities!
The theme on the Kaweah River these past few weekends has been all about team bonding and brotherhood. With two fraternities doing trips (one from UCLA and one from USC), and then a masters women’s...
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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...
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Some Favorite River and Water Quotations
I’m feeling a little bit sappy today. Which, by the way, I just learned can also be expressed by saying: I’m feeling a little bit schmaltzy today. (Gotta love those Thesaurus tools in Word). Anyway,...
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Rafting the Smith River, Presidents Day Weekend
Last weekend, ten All Outdoors guides met up in (very far) Northern California for a weekend of whitewater rafting on the Smith River. The Smith is one of the only un-dammed drainages remaining in...
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Kayaking helpful for rafting? A Case Study on the South Yuba
I’ve heard many kayakers utter the following words: “Kayaking improves your water-reading skills for rafting because you learn to respond to smaller and subtler currents.” Well this winter, I have had...
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Oh Lovely Hills of the South Fork, Oh Sweet Sweet Revenge!
It’s a small miracle that I can sit here and type today. I had thought that after the gauntlet was thrown down, the challenge risen to, the doubters forever silenced, I would be forced to creep off...
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