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…

August 2022 By Mat Bozek SUMMARY  – for detailed report and pictures, click on this link to get to a google doc. Noatak River Trip Report – Alaska – August 2022 Years ago I’d seen an article by Cliff Jacobson about 5 must do rivers, the Noatak being one of them, and I’d kept it…

September 16 – 24, 2022 By Louise R. If you are looking for a challenging whitewater canoe trip in the canyons of the southwest, Desolation Gray Canyon on the Green River might be for you.  Our group met at the campsite on the afternoon of September 15 and launched on the morning of September 16.…

August 15-25, 2022 – 11 days from Snowbank Lake to Moose Lake.  By Louise R. On this challenging and beautiful wilderness trip we paddled across 25 different lakes, from small, marshy ponds to large crystal-clear open lakes. On this trip route, we also had 28 portages and hiked over 20 miles. We began our trip in…

October 13-16, 2022 By Karen A. We had 6 of us in canoes, 1 rubber duckie, and 1 kayak do a 3.2 day trip on the San Juan.  We saw the Butler Wash petroglyph panel, River House ruins, and Chinle Wash cliff dwellings, granaries and petroglyphs.  There were about 20 wild burros and a dozen…