Category: Trip Reports

  • Montana Paddle Trip, Missouri Breaks, June 5-12 2020

    Mat Bozek, Tracy and Janet Hays By Tracy Hays We left home Wednesday June 3rd and drove to Buffalo Wyoming and camped at the Bud Love Wildlife Habitat about 10 miles northwest of town. Here we had an all-night Angus Cattle Serenade, beautiful. Thursday, we drove to Fort Benton Montana, about 780 miles and met…

  • Journey at Home – KL2KW

    Key Largo to Key West Florida, 3/19-3/27 2020 By Tracy and Janet Hays This is an account of our recent kayak paddle trip from Key Largo to Key West Florida. In these uncertain times of Coronavirus, access to places was changing quickly. We had made reservations long ago to camp at John Pennekamp State Park…

  • Bowron Lakes Circuit, RMCC Journey From Home

    This trip was chosen for RMCC’s Journey from Home series because many paddlers in Colorado have not heard of the spectacular Bowron Lakes circuit in British Columbia, Canada. It is a rectangular trail of lakes and waterways that allows fortunate paddlers (the permit process starts in October) to canoe or kayak 72 miles through incredible…

  • Journey at Home – Kathryn and Lynne’s Escalante shenanigans in 2016

    By Lynne Carpenter This Journey at Home was previously posted on the RMCC Google Group. Hi all!  Four women did a packraft trip down the Escalante River (Utah) in 2016.  It was a crazy trip! I made a little video about it. You can see it here. Cheerio! Lynne

  • Journey at Home – Grand Canyon 2015

    By Karen Amundson This Journey at Home was previously posted on the RMCC Google Group. Hi Paddlers, Well, my contract ended early due to coronavirus fallout, so I have been home with no paying work for several days.  This has given me time to take my personal diary of my Grand Canyon trip and intersperse…

  • Journey at Home – Exuma Bahamas 2020

    Exuma Bahamas trip report 2020 By Tracy and Janet Hays This is an account of our 8 day, 75 mile paddle of the cays at the NW end of Exuma, Bahamas.  If you are inspired to go (reading and hearing others adventures is what inspires me) your first decision to make is, whether you are…

  • Journey at Home – the Grand Canyon

    Dear RMCC members, Given these difficult times, we thought you might enjoy a Journey at Home series with your fellow RMCC club members.  We know this journey is only virtual, but hopefully we will be back on the waters soon.  Click here to see the Journey at Home – the Grand Canyon.

  • Trip Report – Coppermine River

    Redrock Lake to Kugluktuk  8/1/19 – 8/18/19 By Mat Bozek Relentless wind could describe this trip in two words.  I was expecting it to be windy, with wind out of the North, and I was expecting a lot of rain and a lot of bugs – got all of that. I wanted to do an…

  • Trip Report – Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge (The Swamp) and Suwanee River 2019

    November 12-23, 2019 by Tracy Hays A group of Rocky Mountain Canoe Club members and a few guests paddled these two southern delights in late November.  The Swamp is in South Georgia, and the Suwanee is in North Florida.  Both places deserve a place in every paddlers bucket list.   I think everyone had a pretty…

  • Trip Report – Everglades

    Everglades National Park Paddle Trip Report November 2 – 9, 2019 by  Tracy Hays Tracy and Janet and our guest Judy paddled the 99 mile Wilderness Waterway Trail from Everglades City to Flamingo. Day 1, Saturday November 2nd. We left Cape Coral FL at 5 a.m. and drove to Everglade City and dropped off our…