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4 Elusive Colorado Whitewater Rafting Trips

If there’s one thing to know about Colorado whitewater rafting trips, it’s that they’re a dime a dozen. Anyone and their dog is privy to the deliciously frothy drops of the Arkansas, the spit and spat of the Colorado through Glenwood, and especially to the rolling suds Denver folks love [...]

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Celebrating 60 Years with Adventure Bound — A Legacy of Keeping it Wild

In 1963, a grassroots rafting company from Colorado came to fruition on the banks of Deerlodge Park. This year, we are proud to celebrate 60 years with Adventure Bound River Expeditions, and the legacy of sharing, protecting and enjoying the wild rivers of the Colorado Plateau. We talked with Tom [...]

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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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How to Book the Trails and Rails Package

If you’re looking for a jaw dropping, gobsmacking, dare we say downright stupefyingly scenic day in the San Juan Mountains, Trails and Rails is the topnotch way to see the tiptop sites between Durango and Silverton. The Trails and Rails package combines a cliff-hugging cruise from Durango and Silverton, followed [...]

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6 Things to Know about Rafting the Salt River

Looking for things to know about rafting the Salt River? Welp, we got the know-how you need! The Salt River is one of the most elusive whitewater rafting trips in the United States. Unlike its real big sister canyon up north, you the one— the Salt still manages to flow [...]

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Fresh on the Salt — A Guide’s First Run with Arizona Whitewater

“I was sitting bored in my crane in Casper, Wyoming ‘cause it’s winter and you’re bored doing nothing, and came across an ad on Craigslist for guide school.” The bored man in question goes by the name of Richard Fredricksen, a Minnesota-raised farmer who found himself working the most frigid [...]