Rocky Mountain Canoe Club

Category: Trip Reports

  • 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…

  • 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…