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.
Planning on taking an O.A.R.S. trip in the near future? Booked on an O.A.R.S. trip already? We present you with our weekly whitewater watch – a resource available to YOU, the interested adventure traveler. Check back every Monday for updates on rivers across the west! Here you will find information regarding weather, river flows, exciting trips being launched weekly and feedback from recent travelers! Our goal is to provide you with answers to your questions and excite your adventurous spirit! Read on to discover what we have in store for you.
Raised on a small island in Northern Michigan, Olson's love for running water developed at an early age. This love drove her away from the Midwest to California to begin work preserving sustainability and delving into the O.A.R.S. segment of adventure travel. Brita enjoys learning about other people, spending time on the water, excursions on her road bike and - when at all possible - combining the three.
Idaho weather and water update for August 7th. Temperatures this week are a bit on the cooler side, but don’t expect the summer fun to cool down anytime soon! In Lewiston, prepare for highs in the upper eighties to upper nineties. Expect nighttime lows to reach the mid-to-low sixties. In Stanley, expect daytime highs in the mid-seventies to loweighties. Nighttime lows are expected to reach the upper forties. Finally, in Salmon expect daytime highs in the low-to-mid eighties and nighttime lows in the low fifties. There are fire impacts currently on the MF below Big Creek on river left moving slowly down river and likely to continue until it rains. So far not a big problem just some smoke when the breeze subsides. The fire status in general has been very small, and we are hoping to keep it that way.
The Middle Fork has dropped from the 2.40 feet spike last week to a much lower 2.07 feet today. So we are flying into Indian Creek while the crew deadheads from Boundary. The Main Salmon has continued dropping from 8,040 cfs to 6,760 cfs. As for the Snake, its flows have been fluctuating between 8k and 15k cfs.
Although the reason we chose the O.A.R.S. Main Salmon for our family rafting trip last summer was to enjoy its 93 miles of wild and scenic landscape, the unexpected surprise was how much fun our eight year old son had. Every day our five young guides–Bram, Chris, Jamie, Chris, and Duncan organized a variety of games for the five children in our group, including teaching them how to safely jump off rocks, float down rapids, and my son’s personal favorite called "Ducky Wars." Not only were our guides outstanding oarsmen, with extensive knowledge of the area’s flora and fauna, they were genuinely nice people who dedicated themselves to making sure each guest had a relaxing, safe, and memorable trip. It doesn’t get any better than this!
It’s Monday morning and you need a little something-something to help ease into your work week? How about a little video clip of some O.A.R.S.’ dories running Vinegar Creek Rapid on the Main Salmon River in Idaho?
According to the O.A.R.S. Idaho Regional Manager, Curt Chang (Curt was an original Grand Canyon Dories guide) – High water is fading and the river temperatures are rising. The Idaho crew is looking forward to perfect summer weather. The weather has been nice, a bit cooler than normal with highs in the 80º’s to 90º. A June 6th Middle Fork of the Salmon River trip was a little cool, which was ideal for hiking. There had been rain showers on and off the past two week on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River and the Main Salmon River, but that is giving way to fair and warmer temps now. Fishing success is starting to pick up now as well. The Middle Fork, Main Salmon and Hells Canyon on the Snake River trips have been very successful with lots of happy faces from passengers and guides.
Curt sent these images from the June 6th Middle Fork of the Salmon River trip.
What the ?#%$#@!?! Can it be? The unofficial start of summer… Memorial Day Weekend? Wasn’t it just spring? Weren’t the O.A.R.S.California whitewater rafting guides just out on their training trips? Weren’t the California hills just lush green with swaths of orange poppies?
If you need any last minute ideas for the Big Weekend…
Here in Northern California, the three major Mother Lode mountain passes are all open for the season:
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The Middle Fork has dropped from the 2.40 feet spike last week to a much lower 2.07 feet today. So we are flying into Indian Creek while the crew deadheads from Boundary. The Main Salmon has continued dropping from 8,040 cfs to 6,760 cfs. As for the Snake, its flows have been fluctuating between 8k and 15k cfs. 
Although the reason we chose the O.A.R.S. Main Salmon for our family rafting trip last summer was to enjoy its 93 miles of wild and scenic landscape, the unexpected surprise was how much fun our eight year old son had. Every day our five young guides–Bram, Chris, Jamie, Chris, and Duncan organized a variety of games for the five children in our group, including teaching them how to safely jump off rocks, float down rapids, and my son’s personal favorite called "Ducky Wars." Not only were our guides outstanding oarsmen, with extensive knowledge of the area’s flora and fauna, they were genuinely nice people who dedicated themselves to making sure each guest had a relaxing, safe, and memorable trip. It doesn’t get any better than this!
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