Whitewater Voyages River Journal

This year’s huge snowpack and cool spring, which slowed the snowmelt runoff, have extended the rafting season on California rivers!!!  The length of season on many rivers will be extraordinary!!

Thrill and delight in great boating flows on:
–Lower Kern through September 6th !
– The Upper Kern and Forks of Kern through late July!
– Thunder Run through July 4th!
– Kaweah through late July!!!
–The Kings through August 8th!
–The Tuolumne through September 7th!
– Merced through July 4th!
–The South and Middle Forks of the American through September 30th  !
–The North Fork American through June 20th
–The Yuba through July 4th

Extended flows like these may not occur again for years to come!
Carpe Diem!
Call us at 800 400 RAFT or book online soon to take full advantage of this year’s bountiful whitewater.  These are the flows we live for!

Warm weather and sunshine provided a fabulous backdrop for our spring guide school on the Kern River near Bakersfield, CA.  A mix of great personalities and highly skillful students attended this years school and many are looking at starting thier guiding career with Whitewater Voyages this season! Some eventful boating lead to a few unexpected swims and wraps which provided wonderful opportunities for hands on learning.  After this 2 and a half day course we were deeply impressed by the students abilities both on and off the water and look forward to many more days on the water with them!

If you are interested in becoming a whitewater rafting guide, or in enhancing your whitewater skills,  check out our 5 and a half day guideschool in June, held on the American Rivers in Northern California here at www.whitewatervoyages.com , or call our main office at 1-800-400-RAFT for more info or to reserve your spot!

 Greetings from Coloma, CA!! We are getting things going here at the Mid-Sierra operation and are excited to see storms continuing to add to an already great snowpack (http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/snow/PLOT_SWC)! Our rivers up here are running at the perfect flows so make sure to check out our website here at www.whitewatervoyages.com or call our main office at 1-800-400-RAFT, for more information and to book your next whitewater rafting adventure with us! Look especially into the Yuba and North Fork American runs, as they are prime spring runs only offered for a limited time, as they are free flowing rivers. Here are a few photos from a recent guide trip down the North Fork of the American!

 If you live in the San Francisco, Sacramento, or Tahoe areas, these are excellent, close to home options for a quick getaway.

See you on the river soon!

Open Letter to All Friends and Staff of Whitewater Voyages:

Warm Greetings to You!

We appreciate you and the role you play in Whitewater Voyages! We hope your winter is going well and we’re looking forward to sharing another outstanding boating season with you!

An El Nino winter is blanketing the Sierra with an excellent snowpack and promising a long and exciting California rafting season! To take full advantage of this fantastic snow pack and fully book our trips—we really need your help and participation in a number of specific areas:

–Become a fan of the Whitewater Voyages Facebook Fan page—click on the Facebook link at the bottom of the WhitewaterVoyages.com home page. (Note: We’ve had some confusion and currently have multiple Whitewater Voyages Facebook pages. The fan page we want to promote and focus on is www.facebook.com/whitewaterfans   This can also be accessed via the “become a fan” button on our website home page.)
–Post pictures, comments, etc. on this Whitewater Voyages Facebook page and tag (i.e. name) the clients and guides in them!
–Post Whitewater Voyages and rafting-related videos on YouTube and similar sites. Be sure to name Whitewater Voyages in each video title and description.
–Post links to the videos on the Whitewater Voyages Facebook fan page—and blog.
–Participate in the Whitewater Voyages blog (www.whitewatervoyagesblog.cowm) — click on the link to our blog at the bottom of our home page.  Post comments to the postings currently on the blog.  Or, if you want to contribute some postings of current river conditions in your area, or other interesting items please write those up and email them to both bill@whitewatervoyages.com and fun@whitewatervoyages.com.   If you want to contribute to the blog on a regular basis, we can also set you up with your own login information to directly post articles.  The more we post to the blog on a regular basis, the more people will find it useful.  (You will notice the URL of the blog has changed.  We are no longer using whitewaterwisdom.com (which you may have bookmarked previously) and we are using instead the domain name shown above: www.whitewatervoyagesblog.com
–Help us spread word in traditional ways as well: Let us know how many rack cards and holders to send you to put in businesses, corporate lunch rooms, etc.
–Tell likely guide candidates about our April 23-25 mini Kern school and our June 20 to 25 American rowing and paddling guide school!
–Let us know—and help us take advantage–of other ways to spread word of our trips via social media, the web, paradigm-shift snail-mail ideas, etc.!

Thanks again for being a part of the Whitewater Voyages family–your participation in our river trips–whether as client or guide, food manager or driver–is deeply, deeply appreciated!!

Looking forward to seeing you in the near future,
Bill, Brian, Sue, Sheri, Wanda, Kay, Jake, Rob, Luke, Mark, Simon