Category: Trip Reports

  • Yampa River – May 2019

    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…

  • Missouri River Sampler – April 2019

    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…

  • Gunnison River – Escalante to Whitewater – May 4 and 5, 2019

    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,…

  • Panther Cave Paddle – Rio Grande – October 2018

    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…

  • Rio Grande Big Bend NP – October 2018

    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…

  • South Nahanni River – August 2018

    Originally posted October 2, 2018 By Mat Bozek I did the South Nahani River, Northwest Territory in August 2018. Attached is a trip report I wrote up for myself, I’m sharing here. It is long, might take 20 minutes to go through it, but you can skip the drive up and back parts – pictures…

  • Maps for the Escalante River Shared By Lynne Carpenter

    Originally posted February 28, 2016 Two maps of the Escalante River provided by Lynne Carpenter: Escalante Overview Escalante_Detail_pages

  • Yukon Rivers Trip Report by Mat Bozek

    Originally posted October 29, 2016 Here’s a link to an amazing trip Mat Bozek took this summer on the Wind and Peel Rivers in the Yukon territory. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Up7jJbt4a-zo4uqNGZq2T-x5HfM-DmJ-WvMFiq2i_so/edit?usp=sharing

  • Missouri River Sampler 2018

    Originally posted April 28, 2018 Trip Report, by Tracy Hays Current River, Jacks Fork River, Eleven Point River On April 10th 2018, 12 members of the Rocky Mountain Canoe Club met at Montauk State Park in the Missouri Ozarks to begin our paddle of three different crystal-clear spring fed rivers. Montauk has an amazing trout…

  • Yampa – South Beach to Duffy Mountain 2018

    Originally posted May 14, 2018 By Dan Custer This year the float between South Beach and Duffy Mountain on the Yampa River was very much like the trip in 2017. This year, just like last year, we got lucky with the weather. The days just before the float were stormy but the days for float…