Books to Loan


A history of the Rocky Mountain Canoe Club’s Stecker Book Collection:

Jill and Bob 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.

Click here for a list of all books in the Rocky Mountain Canoe Club Library

These books are available for borrowing by contacting Anne Fiore at [email protected].

If you would like to add books to our loaner collection, please contact Anne Fiore at [email protected].

As of November 2024, we have a few VCR/VHS tapes which will be recycled unless one of our club members would like them.

The Stecker Book Collection

  • 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