Rocky Mountain Canoe Club

Category: Trip Reports

  • Trip Report – Flaming Gorge – 2021

    September 4-6, 2021 By Karen A. and Erin D. Although 35 people signed up for this trip and seemed to want to go, only 12 people actually were able to make it.  The 3 people who assisted Karen (Trip Leader) in getting camps and reserving shuttles all had to back out.  But we had a…

  • Trip Report: Yukon River – August 2021

    Trip Report: Yukon River – August 2021

    By Mat Bozek We were up in Montana paddling the North Fork of the Flathead river – this trip starts 200 yards from the Canadian Border – as close to Canada as I was expecting to get this second year of Covid.   We finished up on July 30th, I think it was, and found…

  • Trip Report: Yellowstone Lake – July 2021

    By Mat Bozek There have been quite a few club trips to Shoshone lake, but I don’t recall any to the big lakeso I thought I’d write up my trip and provide some useful info for anyone wanting to do this.You could combine this with a trip to Shoshone lake for a longer visit. I…

  • Trip Report: Ruby-Horsethief – 2 day trip

    September 25 – 26, 2021 Compiled by Gay Lynn For something a little different, the trip notes are in the format of limericks and a countdown First, some limericks from our poet in residence, Miry: There once was a trip for our clubThat had the most delectable grubBecause of our leader,A stalwart named Pieter,It came…

  • Trip Report: Ruby-Horsethief – 3 day trip

    September 26-28, 2021 By Kathryn Mutz Having three RMCC events on the same stretch of river in the same weekend hints at the delight that the Ruby-Horsethief run offers! Our three-day, two-night trip launched on Sunday about noon with one tandem canoe (Jerry and Louise), a solo canoe (John), a solo kayak (Janet), and a…

  • Trip Report – San Juan River, Utah – July 2021

    By Tracy Hays On this trip we had 1 oar raft with 2 passengers and an oarsman, 1 inflatable kayak, 3 kayaks and 2 solo canoes. Nine people total. July 11th we all met at Sand Island campground just outside of Bluff Utah, it’s 108ﾟ at 5:00 p.m. 7/12 we rig our boats and turn…

  • Trip Report – Rio Grande River – Rio Grande Bridge to Pilar, New Mexico

    June 19, 2021 By Camilla Barry This is an easy section of the Rio Grande River near Taos, through the Rio Grande gorge. The put-in is under the old, lower Rio Grande Bridge near the BLM campground. I am out-of-practice with my skills after Covid had caused many trips with friends to be canceled. So,…

  • Trip Report – Standley Lake Morning Paddle with the Birds

    Sunday, June 13th, 2021 By Kathryn Mutz Standley Lake is a multi-use recreation and water-storage facility, serving as the drinking water supply for Westminster, Northglenn, and Thornton. With 1,063-acres of surface area, Standley is Westminster’s largest body of water and the Denver metropolitan area’s third largest reservoir. And it is a darn nice place to…

  • Trip Report – Missouri River 2021

    May 10 – 16 By Mat Bozek 25 people had signed up as interested in this trip – way too many, so I asked Doug H if he wouldbe willing to run a group if we split the trip into 2 groups, and he agreed. He would be startingfrom Coal banks landing a couple of…

  • Trip Report – Little Yampa Canyon 2021

    Yampa River – South Beach to Duffy Mountain May 8-9 By Dan Custer We had a good time and we were lucky.  A couple of weeks before the trip the Yampa was running at 500 CFS, way too low.  Since the Yampa is not damn controlled, we needed snow melt for the river to come…