GUIDE AND RAFT TRAINING

For those white water paddlers who aspire to a career or even just a summer job as a raft guide, we have a raft guide training program to help you learn the technical skills, strokes and maneuvers you will need to learn how to guide yourself and others through the rapids. This is a unique and exhilarating way of learning a completely new way of experiencing the water if you are a committed paddler, regardless of age or previous level of boating.

The basic instructional areas within our guide training and instruction include:
  • Equipment selection
  • Maintenance and repair of equipment
  • Reading river flows, lines
  • Scouting and running rapids
  • Rescue and evacuation techniques
  • Minimum impact camping

Specific white water skills you will be taught include

  • Basic and more technical whitewater strokes
  • Ferrying
  • Eddy turns
  • River hydrology
  • River etiquette

Class Levels: Beginner/Intermediate (River Class II-III), Intermediate/Advanced (River Class III-V).

CERTIFIED TRAINING COURSES

Swiftwater Rescue Technician or Rope Rescue courses: Whitewater Guide Training courses.
SRT/WRT

In Colorado
(Nathrop, Almont, Glenwood Springs, Ft. Collins, Parkdale)

SRT 1

3 days

SRT Advanced

2/3 days
SRT Instructor

3 days

Pro-Qualification Water

2 days

WRT 1

3 days

WRT Advanced

2-3 days

Ice Rescue Course

3 days
Technical Rope Rescue

5 days

Certified by Rescue 3
* Call for locations

GUIDE TRAINING COURSES AND TEENAGE SKILLS CAMP

River Guide Training/Staff Training
Guide/Instructor’s Orientation
CO/UT/NM, Multi-River Courses
Includes Swiftwater Rescue Technician course - 3 days

14 days

Raft Guide Training-non employment
Includes Swiftwater Rescue Technician course - 3 days

14 days

22 Day Teenage Whitewater Skills Camp
Instructional, Multi-River, (Coed)
 CO/UT/NM (All meals/equipment)
Additional costs: Green River section Air Shuttle from Grand Junction or Green River ($135)

11 days or
22 days
 
INSTRUCTIONAL SEMINARS
(Kayak - Canoe - Raft - Inflatable Kayaks)
 B - Beginner, I - Intermediate, A - Advanced
River & Canyon Length Book Now
 Private Instruction (1 x 1)
 		  1 day
* Arkansas River (Colorado)
Canyons vary (B,I,A)
Clinics DO NOT include accommodations.
MEALS: LUNCH ONLY.
Options: Camping, motel, bed and breakfast, etc.		 1/2 day am
1/2 day pm
1 day
2 days
3 days
4 days
5 days
*# Colorado River (Colorado)
# Little Gore Canyons (B,I)		 2 days
3 days
*# Colorado River (Colorado)
Kayak Instruction
# Glenwood Canyon (B,I)		 1 day
*# Dolores River
(Colorado) Ponderosa/Slickrock (I,A) as well as
Hanging Flume and Gateway Canyon (B,I,A) and
Castle Valley, Colo. River (B,I)		 3 days
5 days
8 days
10 days
*# Green River (Utah)
Desolation & Gray Canyons (B,I)
$1174 Your Equipment to $1274 Dvorak Equipment
 		 6 days
# Gunnison River (Colorado)
Gunnison Gorge (I,A)
($135 Airfare Not included in price of trip)
 		 1 day
2 days
*# Rio Chama (New Mexico)
Chama Canyons (B,I) 		2 days
3 days
*# Rio Grande The Lower Canyons
Colorado/Santa Elana Canyons (B,I)
(Texas/Mexico Border). Warm water; Spring Break dates.
Excellent beginner river!
 		 7 days
4 days
# Salmon River (Idaho)
Middle Fork (I,A)  “Idaho River Journeys”		 6 days

Printable Schedule and Pricing
 

JOBS WITH DVORAK EXPEDITIONS

 Job Description

Guide Job Application


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