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  • Canoeing Cuisine, April 7

    Creating delectable meals for week end canoe trips, much less multi-day expeditions, is challenging for even the most seasoned paddler. To help you plan for your upcoming canoe adventures, several of RMCC’s experienced members will share their hard won knowledge on how to develop tasty camp meals demonstrating the following topics: How to pack fresh…

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  • Changes to RMCC website

    What happened to the Boats and Equipment – Buy or Sell on the RMCC website? Why did I receive announcements for old trip reports? These are questions you may have. Recently our website hosting company removed our ability to have forums, which is where we had Boats and Equipment – Buy or Sell and Trip…

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  • Notes to RMCC members – February 2019

    From Lynne Carpenter, Trip Master RMCC Good evening all! To see this as a Google doc (it may be easier to read) please go here. This first informational email has a LOT of information and events; subsequent emails will be smaller. I hope everyone is happy with their lottery applications – I know I am…

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  • Panther Cave Paddle – Rio Grande – October 2018

    Originally posted November 16, 2018 Panther Cave Paddle, Rocky Mountain Canoe Club Oct 29, 2018 Trip Report by Tracy HaysWith Tracy and Janet Hays and Bill Rivers This trip was to be Plan B if the water level was too high to safely run the two upper canyons, Santa Elena and Mariscal on the Rio…

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  • Rio Grande Big Bend NP – October 2018

    Originally posted November 16, 2018 Rio Grande Big Bend NP- Rocky Mountain Canoe Club Trip Report by Tracy Hayswith, Bill Rivers, Tracy Hays, Janet Hays, Merlin Wheeler, and Alan Couture, the fab 5 Texas, like most of the west has been in drought conditions for some time. There was concern that this trip might be…

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  • South Nahanni River – August 2018

    Originally posted October 2, 2018 By Mat Bozek I did the South Nahani River, Northwest Territory in August 2018. Attached is a trip report I wrote up for myself, I’m sharing here. It is long, might take 20 minutes to go through it, but you can skip the drive up and back parts – pictures…

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  • Maps for the Escalante River Shared By Lynne Carpenter

    Originally posted February 28, 2016 Two maps of the Escalante River provided by Lynne Carpenter: Escalante Overview Escalante_Detail_pages

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  • Yukon Rivers Trip Report by Mat Bozek

    Originally posted October 29, 2016 Here’s a link to an amazing trip Mat Bozek took this summer on the Wind and Peel Rivers in the Yukon territory. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Up7jJbt4a-zo4uqNGZq2T-x5HfM-DmJ-WvMFiq2i_so/edit?usp=sharing

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  • Missouri River Sampler 2018

    Originally posted April 28, 2018 Trip Report, by Tracy Hays Current River, Jacks Fork River, Eleven Point River On April 10th 2018, 12 members of the Rocky Mountain Canoe Club met at Montauk State Park in the Missouri Ozarks to begin our paddle of three different crystal-clear spring fed rivers. Montauk has an amazing trout…

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  • Yampa – South Beach to Duffy Mountain 2018

    Originally posted May 14, 2018 By Dan Custer This year the float between South Beach and Duffy Mountain on the Yampa River was very much like the trip in 2017. This year, just like last year, we got lucky with the weather. The days just before the float were stormy but the days for float…

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  • Gunnison River – Escalante to Whitewater 2017

    Originally posted December 23, 2017 By Dan Custer The Escalante to Whitewater section of the Gunnison was a fun trip for everyone, especially since no one dumped their boat into the cold water. Water temps averaged around 55 degrees. The water was flowing between 1400 and 1500 CFS and when we stopped paddling the current…

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  • Yampa – South Beach to Duffy Mountain 2017

    Originally posted December 23, 2017 By Dan Custer The RMCC Yampa trip of May 5-7, 2017, from South Beach to Duffy Mountain was a very pleasant float trip. It was scheduled for early May to avoid clouds of mosquitoes and hopefully have good flow. There were virtually no bugs. The weather was exceptional for early…

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