River trip organizing tips, including applying for permits, assembling your crew, planning meals, and trip leading.
Dutch oven cooking is a legendary part of river trip camping, especially for river outfitters running multi-day trips. Although campstove cooking and open fire grilling are the default for river trips because you often don’t have much time in camp, Dutch ovens make it possible to whip up delectable baked goods in the wild—and that … Read more
Sometimes all your summer plans for running multi-day river trips fall through. You didn’t pull a permit, or your usual assemblage of fellow river runners can’t coordinate schedules, or the water drops out on a planned river trip. In those cases, it’s easy to let family visits, house projects, and baseball games push your paddling … Read more
Late-summer river trips can be blissfully simple because you can get by with less gear: No need for fleece layers at night or extensive splash gear during the day. But as the average summer temperatures keep getting hotter, especially on some of the most popular western U.S. river sections, it’s smart to thoroughly prepare your … Read more
Updated May 15, 2022 Ever thought about chucking your day job—the desk, the conference calls, the commute—and doing something completely different, preferably outside? Pete Bell did just that. In spring 2019, he left his respectable job as a statistician at a law firm in Denver to become a whitewater guide—but then he got his “real” … Read more
Note: This post was updated on April 13, 2022, to include new items and new categories of camp kitchen gear. We spend an inordinate amount of time on multi-day river trips thinking about how to make our camp kitchen more efficient—and by that we don’t necessarily mean minimalist. After all, if we wanted to travel … Read more