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GUIDE AND RAFT TRAINING

Whitewater Rafting Guide TrainingWould you like to be able to confidently and safely guide a raft filled with excited paddlers through thrilling rapids? Does a summer job or life-long career in the whitewater paddling industry interest you? If so, Dvorak Expeditions (DVK) has an internationally recognized raft guide training program to help you learn the technical skills, strokes and maneuvers needed to become a proficient whitewater rafting guide. If you are already a committed paddler, our training program offers a unique and exhilarating way to learn new skills and experience the water from an entirely different perspective. If you have an interest in boating, but lack prior knowledge or background in whitewater, then this program will provide the tools and training you need to develop into a competent, qualified, and versatile raft guide. As long as you have enthusiasm and an adventurous spirit, DVK river training is the place for you.

Guide Training

Arkansas River Colorado

  • Book 14 Day: Raft Guide Training, Open to Non Employees

  • Book 16 Day: Raft Guide and Orientation – Dvorak Expeditions Guides

Check out our Swiftwater Rescue Courses and Rope Courses.

Dvorak Expeditions has been offering guide and private boater river training for longer than any other Colorado outfitter. If you would like to set yourself a step, page, or bend in the river ahead of all the rest, then DVK river training is what you need. Learn from experienced multifaceted guides and instructors (including Bill Dvorak, consummate Rescue 3 instructor). DVK includes a top-level intro to Swift Water Rescue Course (SRT1) option to every trainee. We also teach valuable camping skills and outdoor cooking on our guide-training course. Come learn how the pros do it, from a company that helped shape the wilderness survival guidelines and techniques for both NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) and Outward Bound programs when they were in their infancy.

The basic instructional areas within our guide training and instruction include: Equipment selection

Guide Training Row Raft

  • Paddle boat and oar boat (rigging, control, recovery)
  • 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).


Bill Dvorak Kayak & Rafting Expeditions, Inc & Dvorak Parkdale River Center, Inc.

An authorized concessionaire in Big Bend National Park and a recreation partner with the Pike San Isabel, Routt, Medicine Bow, White River National Forests as well as the Bureau of Land Management in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming and Colorado State Parks. Colorado River Outfitters License #1 & # 0386 * Colorado Fishing Outfitters License #796 * Equal Opportunity Service Provider and Equal Opportunity employer.

DVORAK EXPEDITIONS OFFICE:
17921 U.S. Hwy 285, Nathrop, Colorado 81236

1-800-824-3795 (Reservations)
1-719-539-6851 (Office)
1-719-539-3378 (Fax)
EMAIL: info@dvorakexpeditions.com

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