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The Best Things to do in Moab this Fall for 2023

The Best Things to do in Moab this Fall for 2023

Fall is the best time to be in Moab, Utah. Locals change up their afternoon siesta and DIY ice-fan routine for more adventurous shenanigans. The air and water beckon with seventy to eighty degree temperatures. Rainfall averaging sixty-seven inches adds earthy-smells. Lightning strikes through contrasting cerulean and orange landscapes. Furthermore,

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close up of aspen trunks showing the eye design in their white bark - Mild to Wild

Everything You Wanted to Know about the Aspen Tree

So, you’re looking for some cold hard facts about the aspen tree. Well, you’ve come to the right shady corner of the internet friend. That’s a pun on trees, in case you’ve got the wrong idea about that quality double entendre.  Aspens, the quaking aspens of this particular discussion (genus

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Cataract Canyon Scenery - Utah - Mild to Wild Rafting

What to Wear Whitewater Rafting in Fall

The title of this post, “What to Wear Whitewater Rafting in Fall,” presents a catch-22 scenario. Whenever we think of autumn, we associate it with cooler weather and changing leaves. Early Fall in some Southwest rivers, however, offers pleasant desert conditions and friendlier whitewater. Specifically, near Moab, Utah, the Colorado

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Desolation Canyon - Woman Pointing at Scenery on Boat - Mild to Wild

A Desolation Canyon Photo Story

Desolation Canyon falls into the far reaches of Utah’s most remote wilderness study area. The rare refuge gives much-needed space for migrating bison, free roaming mustangs, Big horned sheep, black bears, and many other desert fauna to go about their business uninterrupted. In that, the name of this growing canyon

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Yampa River - Scenic boats docked at Mathers Hole - Mild to Wild

10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Yampa River

If if there’s one thing that people know about the Yampa River, it’s usually that it holds the mighty title as the last free-flowing tributary in the Colorado River system. For a little context on this wild waterway— The Yampa River starts in the mountains above Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and

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Gates of Lodore Scenic Boats

Rafting Season Forecast for 2023

Whoop whoop— It’s the Rafting Season Forecast for 2023!!! Hold onto those boat straps folks, it’s going to be a WILD season! With a long and snow-packed winter behind us, we’re gearing up for a righteously rampant runoff across the Colorado Plateau. Get ready for some of the highest flows

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Bluff Scenery in Cataract Canyon - Wide View

3 Awesome Alternative Rafting Trips to the Grand Canyon 

It’s no secret that the Grand Canyon is an A-lister of multi-day rafting excursions, but it’s not the only one on the proverbial list of river celebrities— there’s plenty of alternative trips to the Grand Canyon. The great waterways of the Southwest have cut a rugged network of canyons that

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multi-day campsite in Castle Valley, Utah - Mild to Wild

How to Choose the Right Multi-Day Rafting Trip

Shopping around for a multi-day rafting trip but not quite sure where to start? We know that feeling all too well! Mild to Wild offers overnight river trips for 7 different rivers spread across Colorado, Utah and Arizona. What can we say, we love running rivers and we love having

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Gates of Lodore Hike - Lodore - Mild to Wild Rafting

Living in Lodore Canyon — A Guide’s Ride with the Green River

Before the canyons of the Green River were mapped 150 years ago, many westerners imagined that they unraveled into gardens of Eden. Today, most, if not all, might say that assumption was completely astute. Particularly in Lodore Canyon. Between billion-year-old quartzite walls, gardens bloom bankside with wild mint and hackberries,

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