Click here for a list of all books in the Rocky Mountain Canoe Club Library.
If you would like to borrow a book or if you would like to add books to our loaner collection, please contact Anne Fiore at [email protected]
Though we have books that were donated anonymously or individually, a large portion of our books were donated by Georgia Briscoe or by Jill and Bob Stecker (Stoecker). See below for books in those collections and information about the donors.
The Georgia Briscoe Collection
Georgia Briscoe, now retired, was a librarian at the CU Law School. She is an avid mountaineer as well as a paddler.
- Canoe Handbook; Slim Ray; 1992, Stackpole Books
- Bowron Lakes; Richard Thomas Wright, 1989, Heritage House Publishing
- Dinosaur River Guide; Loie Belknap Evans with Buzz Belknap, Westwater Books
- Canyonlands River Guide; Bill and Buzz Belknap with Loie Belknap Evans, Westwater Books
- The Colorado River in Grand Canyon / A guide; Larry Stevens, 1983, Red Lake Books
- Pole, Paddle and Portage – A Complete Guide to Canoeing; Bill Riviere, 1969, Little, Brown and Company
- The Salmon – a wild and scenic river; USDA / Forest Service, 1994, USDA / Forest Service
- Canoeing and Rafting – Guide to America’s Best Tame and Wild Waters; Sara Pyle, 1979, William Morrow and Company
- Canoeist’s Little Book of Wisdom; Cliff Jacobson, 1996, ICS Books
- The Floater’s Guide to Colorado; Doug Wheat, 1989, Falcon Press
The Stecker Book Collection
Jill and Bob Stecker (Stoecker) were long time members, officers, instructors, competitors and inspiration for the RMCC. Before moving to Oregon, the Stoeckers donated a collection of books including canoeing/kayaking how-tos and boating guides for rivers from east to west coasts. According to Jill, when they started competing in whitewater slalom racing (in the mid 1990’s), the race announcers never knew how to pronounce their ‘difficult’ German name. So they dropped the ‘o’, making it easier to pronounce and kept it Stecker for all canoeing activities.
- A Canoeing and Kayaking Guide to the Streams of Florida; Volume I, North Central Peninsula and Panhandle, Elizabeth F. Carter and John L. Pearce, 1985, Menasha Ridge Press
- A Canoeing and Kayaking Guide to the Streams of Florida; Volume II, Central and South Peninsula, Lou Glaros and Doug Sphar, 1987, Menasha Ridge Press
- Arkansas River Guide – Granite to Canon City, Colorado; Thomas G. Ramton, 1996, Blacktail Enterprises (about $95 used)
- Beyond the Paddle – A canoeist’s Guide to Expedition Skills: Poling, Lining, Portaging and Maneuvering through Ice; Garrett Conover, 1991, Tillbury House publishers (About $35 used)
- Blender – Colorado River Dog, Ed Martley, 1997, Top Dog Publishing (About $22 Used)
- Canoe and Kayak Trip Guide – for the Central Interior of British Columbia; Northwest Brigade Canoe Club, 1983
- Canoe Routes – British Columbia; Richard Wright and Rochelle Wright, 1980, Douglas and McIntyre
- Canoe Trails of the Deep South; Chuck Estes, Elizabeth F. Carter, and Byron Almquist, 1991, Menasha Ridge Press
- Canoeing Wild Rivers – A Primer to North American Expedition Canoeing; Cliff Jacobson, 1984, ICS Books Inc.
- Cold Summer Wind; Clayton Klein, 1983, Wilderness House Books (Canada’s North Country)
- Colorado Whitewater – A guide to the most difficult Rivers and Streams of the Rocky Mountain Region; Jim Stohlquist, 1982, Colorado Kayak Supply
- Decide to Return; 2 CD set, American Canoe Association, 2007, Walkabout Productions, Inc.
- Floaters Guide to Colorado; Doug Wheat, 1983, Falcon Press
- Freestyle Canoeing – Contemporary Paddling Technique; Lou Glaros and Charlie Wilson, 1994, Menasha Ridge Press
- Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation; David Burch, 1987, The Globe Pequot Press
- Heads up! – River Rescue for River Runners; 1 CD, American Canoe Association, 1993, Walkabout Productions, Inc.
- Hell or High Water – James White’s Disputed Passage through the Grand Canyon; Eilean Adams, 2001, Utah State University Press
- Keep it Moving – Baja by Canoe; Valerie Fons, 1986, The Mountaineers
- Paddle and Portage – The Floaters Guide to Wyoming Rivers; Dan Lewis, 1991, Hawks Book Co. (Free on line version available)
- Paddle to the Amazon – The Ultimate 12,000-Mile Canoe Adventure; Don Starkel, 1988, McClelland and Stewart
- Paddling Montana; Hank and Carol Fischer, 1999, Falcon Publishing
- Paddling the Sunshine Coast; Dorothy and Bodhi Drope, 1997 Harbor Publishing (Howe Sound to Desolation Sound – Straits of Georgia, BC) (about $20 used)
- River Trails, Bayous and Back Roads – Louisiana, a dream state; 1984, The Louisiana Office of Tourism
- Rivers of the Southwest – A Boaters Guide to the Rivers of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona; Fletcher Anderson and Ann Hopkinson, 1982, Pruett Publishing (about $20 used)
- Running the Amazon; Joe Cane, 1989, Vantage Books
- Soggy Sneakers – A guide to Oregon Rivers; Willamette Kayak and Canoe Club, 1994
- Solo Playboating -The Workbook; Kent Ford, 1997, Performance Video
- Song of the Paddle – An Illustrated Guide to Wilderness Camping; Bill Mason, 1988, Key Porter Books
- The Basic Essentials of Canoe Poling; Harry Rock, 1992, ICS Books (About $17 used)
- The Basic Essentials of Weather Forecasting; Michael Hodgson, ICS Books
- Thrill of the Paddle – The Art of Whitewater Canoeing; Paul Mason and Mark Scriver, Firefly Books
- Whitewater Trips – for Kayakers, Canoeists, and Rafters in British Columbia: Greater Vancouver through Whistler, Okanagan and Thompson River Regions; Betty Pratt-Johnson, 1986, Adventure Publishing