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New look for the RMCC website
The next time you visit the RMCC website it will look different, but the content will be the same. I have updated the site’s WordPress theme to help keep our software up to date. As a side benefit, the website will work better with smart phones and tablets than it did in the past. Go…
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Going to Rendezvous? Don’t forget . . .
Looking forward to seeing you for the 2022 RMCC Rendezvous at the Radium Campground this weekend. The Colorado River has been hovering around 1000cfs — covering a lot of rocks and not too pushy. We are starting to gather Friday morning for a run on Pumphouse and a few avid boaters will be staying to…
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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…
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Rendezvous Updates – August 5 – 8, 2022
Please see the Rendezvous flier attached to the website calendar event or Rendezvous flier for specifics about the event — days (adding Monday this year), runs, meals, competitions (cooking, rope throw and knots), costs, directions, etc. In addition: Please RSVP to Kathryn so we have a sense of how many will be boating on which…
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Club Equipment to Loan: New list and request for a canoe transport from the ACA Open Canoe Slalom Championships in Canon City
Thanks to generous donations — recent and upcoming — we are expanding our loaner equipment. We have recently received a variety of items, including several paddles, from non-member Bill Whitaker, a new canoe cart with large wheels from member Randy Purrett, and a whitewater canoe (14′ Dagger Caption — fitted for both solo and tandem…
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Two New Autumn trips on the Calendar! Sign up now.
Trip # 1: Paddling for 3 days in WY on the Green River below Fontanelle Reservoir (through the Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge ) followed by an optional day paddle below the Flaming Gorge dam. This will be an ACA-sanctioned outing/event which requires EITHER ACA membership OR a $10/person insurance fee. The trip is a series…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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Standley Lake, June 19
Join us for a beautiful morning paddle on Saturday, June 19 at Standley Lake in Westminster. Remember to bring your binoculars for spotting the many birds that make this lake their summer home including bald eagles, white pelicans, cormorants, mallard ducks and many more. If you are lucky you might even see a resident beaver.…
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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…
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