Rocky Mountain Canoe Club

Category: Trip Reports

  • Trip Report – Noatak River Alaska – Pingo to Cutler Lake

    Trip Report – Noatak River Alaska – Pingo to Cutler Lake

    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…

  • Trip Report – Desolation Gray

    Trip Report – Desolation Gray

    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.…

  • Trip Report – Boundary Waters

    Trip Report – Boundary Waters

    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…

  • Trip Report – San Juan River, Sand Island to Mexican Hat

    Trip Report – San Juan River, Sand Island to Mexican Hat

    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…

  • Ruby – Horsethief Trip Report: October 11 – 14, 2022

    Six RMCC members spent three nights/four days canoeing and hiking in the Ruby and Horsethief Canyons of the Colorado River from October 11 to 14, 2022. For more, see R-H Trip Report. Additional trip photos are available in the website gallery.

  • Trip Report – Stillwater Canyon – Green River 2022

    This is a stunning Class I trip of approximately 52 river miles—we highly recommend it! It could even be done over more days with additional time for hiking side canyons and seeing fossils andruins. Read the full report…

  • Colorado River: Loma to Westwater Sept 25-26 2022

    Submitted by Bill Ashworth, Trip Coordinator 10 paddlers from RMCC boated the 25 miles from Loma CO to Westwater UT under beautiful skies and a lovely 3200 cfs flow. We chose a Sunday-Monday trip to access a reasonable campsite via Wreck.gov. This was a first time at the Fault Line II site and it proved…

  • Trip Report – Seedskadee 2022

    Trip Report – Seedskadee 2022

    Green River through the Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, September 2-5, 2022. By Karen A. On Day 1 we saw lots of osprey, bald eagles, white pelicans, 1 Trumpeter Swan and a couple of great blue herons. Day 2 again had numerous large birds (no swan) and we were treated to 3 moose lying in the…

  • July 16 2022 North Platte Glendo to Guernsey

    On July 16th, fifteen RMCC members and friends paddled the North Platte River 19 miles from below Glendo Powerhouse to above Guernsey Reservoir in SE Wyoming.  We do this trip nearly every year and the water level can be unpredictable due to the Bureau of Reclamation “silt run” release.  Around the 4th of July, BOR…

  • Trip Report – Grand and Shadow Mountain Lakes 2022

    Trip Report – Grand and Shadow Mountain Lakes 2022

    June 5, 2022 By Tracy Hays Eleven Rocky Mountain Canoe Club member paddled Grand Lake and Shadow Mountain Lake.  It was a chilly overcast morning but once we got paddling into the light headwind, we quickly warmed up. Our fleet consisted of 1 tandem canoe, 3 solo canoes, and 6 kayaks. We launched at Grand…