Our annual fall paddle on the Colorado always attracts a big crowd, and this year of living dangerously was no exception. 20 paddlers in tandem canoes, solo canoes, rec kayaks, and sea kayaks launched without incident (or BLM or Fish and Wildlife inspections) from the Loma boat ramp to bright skies and low water. At…

RMCC trip July 14-25, 2020 By Tracy and Janet Hays Day 1.  Tuesday July 14th our group met and camped at Big Larch Campground in Seeley Montana. There was Karen A our trip leader and her friend Bev, Louise, Kit and Henry, Mark and Karen R, Fran, Tracy and Janet and Judy H.  Our boats…

In preparation for our October 9th Powell Escalante Arm Houseboat/Kayak trip, Powell paddlers were invited to do a weekend at Pueblo Reservoir with sea kayak exit and re-entry training given by Jim and Karen Dlouhy from the Rocky Mountain Sea Kayak Club.  The trip report and some good photos are shown on the link below. …

Come hell (Covid-19?) or high water (not so much), we few had a great time at Rendezvous this year. Twelve RMCCers (Karen Amundsen, Ron Bockhaus, Becky Bowers and Ken Hilt, Mat Bozek, Craig and Nita Flora, Lin Hark, Michael Johnson, Kathryn Mutz, Chet Pauls, and James Sullivan) and a delightful guest from Virginia (Theresa Bishop)…

6/5/20 to 6/12/20    149.5 miles By Mat Bozek “Welcome to the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument” This trip has been on my “to do” list for a long time.  I’d originally planned on doing it solo, but decided to offer it as a RMCC club trip, and scheduled it for a May 9th start…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…