Stories From The Water

Our river trips abound, but be sure to surround your whitewater rafting or fishing trip on the Arkansas River with one of our region’s other amazing adventures. Check out this video: Outdoor Adventures

From FIBArk.com. For full 2016 schedule visit FIBArk Website. Every year in June during the Arkansas River runoff in Salida, Colorado, a festival occurs called FIBArk or “First In Boating the Arkansas.” The festival focuses on whitewater boat races and paddlers from around the nation and world come to compete. The town is consumed…

Two Unique Opportunities to Experience Music and Rafting on the Green River! 29TH ANNUAL CLASSICAL MUSIC JOURNEY 8 Days / July 23-30th / Green River in Desolation & Gray Canyons / Utah Limited spaces (20 persons) Ever sit in a concert hall listening to works from Bach, Stravinsky, Mozart, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky or Shostakovitch and wish you…

Reposted from Ammoland.com: Maintaining outdoor traditions, generating local sportsmen support must be key considerations for future national monument proposals, according to national report Salida, CO -(AmmoLand.com)- Designation of the new, 21,586-acre Browns Canyon National Monument is delivering landscape-scale conservation benefits, continued hunting and angling opportunity, and economic payoffs, said sportsmen-conservation leaders at a gathering of decision-makers and journalists on the Arkansas River over the weekend. Coloradans worked for more than 40 years to permanently conserve and protect the diverse terrain of Browns Canyon, which includes high alpine meadows and lakes, winter range in the pinon-juniper hills, habitat for iconic big game species, and the Arkansas River—one of Colorado’s most popular trout fisheries. The monument was formally designated on Feb. 19, 2015. “The Arkansas River and Browns Canyon is a story about persistence and working together for the common good,” said Corey…

The Colorado River has world famous rapids With over 1400 miles of river to choose from, the Colorado River is known the world over for its premier whitewater. The Colorado has something for everyone, including “big water” chasers, who are longing to feel the rush of the river, and navigate through the intense rapids that…

Happy New Year, Paddlers! Raise your paddle if you have “weight loss and fitness” at the top of your New Year’s Resolution List! Yup, we’re not even going to count, we’re just here to support you, and offer up some fun, exciting suggestions for reaching your 2016 goals. Forget the gym, forget the new fitness…

Imagine Star Wars without the soundtrack, or Jurassic Park, or Jaws, or Inception, or The Wizard of Oz, just to name a few. They wouldn’t be the movies they are today. Music plays a huge part in how we perceive certain situations. We use music to get us mentally prepared for one thing or another…

For the past few years, everyone has been getting pumped, ripped, and bulked up with all their intense interval workouts. Don’t get us wrong, it’s great to see the return of toned bodies and muscles. The problem is, everyone seems to have gotten a little too tight and now it’s time to stretch your body…

Change the Course: Water Connects Us All Without water, we would not exist. Without water, life in any form, cannot exist. It is more important than ever, not just for the river rafting community that we protect our rivers. The Colorado River supplies water to tens of millions of people, but the fate of this…

Take a picture, it’ll last longer! By now we should all be experts at taking selfies and snapping away with your cell phone every chance you get. The elimination of the old fashioned roll of film has allowed us to take more pictures than we care to admit. We document everything, making sure our friends…

Writing out a bucket list is fun. You can let your imagination go wild. A bucket list is usually a mix of attainable goals, and then some “if I won the lottery” goals. The problem with an extensive bucket list is that we sometimes get so overwhelmed by our goals and dreams that we become…

Like the song goes, the summer of ‘69 was where it all began for the Dvorak family. We became the first licensed outfitter in Colorado, realizing a lifelong dream of sharing the magic of the Colorado rivers with families from all across the country. Bill and Jaci Dvorak have raised their own family on these…