Rocky Mountain Canoe Club

Category: Trip Reports

  • 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…

  • Trip Report – Salida Bluegrass and Paddle – May 28-30, 2022

    By Karen A. We had 10 people converge on Salida, prepared to paddle, hike, dance to bluegrass music, enjoy brews and burritos post paddling, and camp among the pinyons. It was a memorable Memorial Day weekend…. Read the full report here.

  • Trip Report – Little Yampa Canyon 2022

    Trip Report – Little Yampa Canyon 2022

    May 14 and 15, 2022 By Dan Custer For several years we have been running this stretch through Little Yampa Canyon a week or two earlier than we did this year. In early May the cottonwoods have not leafed out, making it easier to see nests. This year we got there just before the cottonwoods…

  • Niobrara River May 2022

    20 club paddlers in canoes, IKs, sea kayaks, and Normandy landing craft (well, that’s what my SOAR 14ft felt like solo in the Saturday wind) returned to northern Nebraska’s gentle Niobrara for our annual Memorial Day outing. The notorious late May weather remained dry until a spectacular lightning storm and rain late Sunday night. The…

  • Missouri Breaks 2022 – Trip Report

    Missouri Breaks 2022 – Trip Report

    5/12-5/18, 2022 By Tracy Hays There were 9 of us on this trip paddling 3 tandem canoes, 1 solo canoe and 2 sea kayaks.  Our collective life experience is around 600 years, give or take a decade or so, the exact number will remain a mystery.  We all met at the canoe launch campground in…

  • After Work Paddle, MacIntosh Lake, May 10, 2022 Trip Report

    After Work Paddle, MacIntosh Lake, May 10, 2022 Trip Report

         Macintosh Lake, in Longmont,  makes a great casual evening paddle.  Even this early in the season, four club members were able to get on the water a bit past 6 pm, enjoy a relaxing paddle, and be off the lake and heading home before dusk. Access is easy, with a short boat carry from street…