A whitewater rafting blog for anyone interested in California whitewater rafting, Idaho river rafting, rafting in the Grand Canyon, as well as rafting throughout the U.S. West, national parks vacations, multi-sport vacations, adventure travel, and all things related to the world's waterways.
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Of course I’ve been watching Ken Burns’ “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.” (Haven’t you?) Living at the gates of Yosemite National Park and owner of a National Parks Pass nearly every year of my adult life, I feel it almost sacrilegious to miss this television event.
It is somehow fitting that my first transcendental wilderness experiences occurred at our country’s first national park – Yellowstone. Between my junior and senior years at college, a friend and I headed west for a two-month long road trip that took us to Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Badlands National Parks, as well as such unforgettable places as Devil’s Tower National Monument, the Oregon and California coastlines, the San Francisco Bay Area and the Mojave Desert.
I grew up in a small Ohio industrial town, where our rivers and streams were murky chocolate brown-red-gray in color, and nobody I knew dared eat the catfish caught there. We were discouraged from swimming in our streams. The Cuyahoga River, not far from my hometown, caught on fire in the summer of 1969. Clearly I grew up with a distorted concept of wilderness. At night, our town was typically shrouded under an eerie pinkish-orange glow, whether from the steel mills or shopping mall parking lots, I don’t know.
How many whitewater rafting companies can claim a motorcycling-riding, world-traveling, gourmet-cooking, derby demolition chica? O.A.R.S. proudly sponsored Tyra McCart-Swanson in the Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee Demolition Derby this past Sunday.
Okay… so Twisted Tyra didn’t win this year. Who cares?! She was out there representing O.A.R.S. and our good friends of Twisted Oak Winery.
Book by March 31, 2009, and save $250 on any OARS 2009 whitewater rafting/photography trips. You don’t need to be a photographer – or even have much interest in photography – to enjoy these trips. (All include exciting whitewater rafting, camping under a stellar night sky, hiking, lazing around camp, abundant food and drink…) However – All O.A.R.S. photography trips are appropriate for novices, budding amateurs and professionals. These adventures provide a supportive and educational environment to practice and improve photography skills. We put you in some of the West’s most scenic locations with access to some of the country’s most successful, creative and cutting-edge photographers so that you may unleash your creative potential. The emphasis on all trips is primarily landscape photography, and you will certainly be able to relax and savor your beautiful surroundings.
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