By Tracy and Janet Hays First off, I want to acknowledge how grateful we are to Mat and Judy for asking us to join them on this adventure of a lifetime.  It was way beyond anything we would have ever cooked up on our own.  The trip was demanding, intimidating, and exhausting but so very…

By Mat Bozek 2023 Yukon Trip – Big Salmon River to Yukon River to Dawson  480 miles Four of us drove North from Colorado to paddle the Big Salmon and Yukon Rivers.  It was me and my partner Judy in my patched up Pakcanoe 170, and our friends Tracy and Janet (T/J) in their 14.5’…

June 19-23, 2023 By Judy Moisey-Asay On Monday, June 19, 2023, we launched on the Green River at Ruby Ranch with 15 people and 8 canoes. We went with Tex’s Riverways Outfitters and as usual they did a nice job of moving us, our canoes and equipment to the put in. We arrived around 11:30am…

By Dan Custer Normally I would not think a morning paddle on Chatfield Reservoir would be worthy of a trip report.  Now I think it is worth at least one report. If you did not already know, Chatfield Reservoir is super full of water, more than ever before.  You can now paddle through a cottonwood…

May 20 – 22nd  65 miles By Mat Bozek The water levels had been too low the past couple of years, but the big snowpack up on the Flat Tops this past winter meant a very good water year.   The gauges had been holding pretty steadily at around 3200 cfs.  In Parson’s guide book…

May 10 through May 15, 2023 By Randy Purrett On Wednesday, May 10, Randy (What, me worry?!) Purrett, Elaine (I’m not worried.) O’Reilly, and John (We’ve got this.) Unger, launched at Ruby Ranch, on the Green River, Utah. At the time of launch, the Green was running at a little under 20,000 CFS, dropped down…

By Mat Bozek My family has had a camp near Old Forge NY since the 1950s.  I haven’t spent much time there for many years, and Judy and I decided to take advantage of the camp this fall and do some hiking and paddling.  Old Forge is the start of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail…

By Mat Bozek On our way back from the Noatak River in Alaska, Judy and I made a reservation for the Bowron Lakes Canoe Circuit in British Columbia- it is a provincial park.  The full circuit is a 71.7 mile loop thru mountain lakes and rivers.  6.7 miles of that is on the 6 portages…

1/7/2023-1/17/2023 By Tracy H. Note:  In November 2019, a group of RMCC members traveled to Georgia and Florida to paddle the route described below.  However, due to very low water in 2019, the route below was closed.  So we improvised on the 2019 trip and paddled a different section of the Okefenokee swamp, and then…