July 20, 2019 By Bill Ashworth Our annual North Platte River Glendo to (almost) Guernsey saw 11 paddlers up against a 7500 cfs release from the Glendo Dam. And all but 1 came out of the standing waves upright (but no names). The inevitable train across the Cottonwood Creek take-out road finally happened but the…

Sunday, June 9th, 2019 By Kathryn Mutz Standley Lake is a multi-use recreation and water-storage facility, and is the drinking water supply for Westminster, Northglenn, and Thornton. With 1,063-acres of surface area, Standley Lake is Westminster’s largest body of water. It is also the Denver metropolitan area’s third largest reservoir.  And it is a darn nice place…

By Bill Ashworth June 1, 2019 This Saturday’s trip was originally slated for Gross Reservoir above Boulder but that reservoir was very low (over 70 feet below the full level) so we switched to McIntosh Lake in Longmont instead. We’ll do Gross later in the summer once it’s filled. Fair weather brought out 11 paddlers…

By Bill Ashworth, Trip Coordinator For probably the 10th consecutive year, hardy paddlers from RMCC canoed the Niobrara in North Central Nebraska at Memorial Day. A typical trip in most regards (lovely campground, gorgeous river canyon, flowing waterfalls, SOME rain) we did have unusually high water. The historical average for this weekend is about 900…

May 17th to 19th, 2019 By Mat Bozek I like doing the White River.  It is remote and wild after you get past the first 8 miles or so of ranches and homes.  Except for one very large group camped a mile or so below Bonanza bridge, we saw no one at all except one…

Yampa River, South Beach to Duffy Mountain May 4-5, 2019 By Dan Custer The last two years this trip was planned as a 2 ½ day trip. This year we did it in two days, with only one night on the river.  Several people camped at the South Beach put-in, which is permissible and free…

Current River, Jacks Fork River, and Eleven Point River April 20-29 2019 By Tracy Hays I have decided to begin my trip report with the very last thing that happened just to get this out of the way. When our trip was finished, we loaded up our boats and returned to the Cane Bluff put-in…

By Mat Bozek I’ve done the Gunnison River 15 times or so, and it is always a good trip.  This trip was a 9.98 on the one to ten scale, with only 6” of mud to deal with at the landings to take away from a perfect 10.  Weather was perfect, no bugs bothering us,…

Originally posted November 16, 2018 Panther Cave Paddle, Rocky Mountain Canoe Club Oct 29, 2018 Trip Report by Tracy HaysWith Tracy and Janet Hays and Bill Rivers This trip was to be Plan B if the water level was too high to safely run the two upper canyons, Santa Elena and Mariscal on the Rio…

Originally posted November 16, 2018 Rio Grande Big Bend NP- Rocky Mountain Canoe Club Trip Report by Tracy Hayswith, Bill Rivers, Tracy Hays, Janet Hays, Merlin Wheeler, and Alan Couture, the fab 5 Texas, like most of the west has been in drought conditions for some time. There was concern that this trip might be…