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These are a few photos from the last two years that I’ve added quotes too.  We have recently been posting these and other similar photos on the WRO facebook page.  If you are a facebooker, make sure to subscribe to our page to keep a little whitewater in your news feed! I thought this quote from Emma…

For Halloween here, at the WRO office, we decided to dress up Iris’s dog Zephyr as a throw rope!  It took a little persuasion for this miniature Australian shepherd to agree it was a good idea, but nothing a few treats couldn’t take care of. Happy Halloween! Seth Tonsmeire

A note from Iris in the office: On June 25th I had the opportunity to get out of the office for a week and go on my first commercial river trip with Wilderness River Outfitters.  We launched at Boundary Creek with a group of 5 guests (including myself) and 4 guides.  For the guests Tom,…

With the river season starting to slow down in Idaho, I now have time to sit down at the computer and actually look through some of the photos I took throughout the season.  June seems like a long time ago, thinking back to when the Middle Fork Salmon was still running pretty high.  These days…

We had a great mixed group on our July 3rd date this year!  Three different families and two father daughters to make up a group of sixteen.   Everyone from the group met for the first time in Stanley, but quickly became new friends on day one. Check out a great video guide Matt Westfall…

Since our first commercial trip on the Middle Fork Salmon on June 16th, I have been on the go!  I started the season off right with a few great Middle Fork trips in a row.  We have been having a busy season in Idaho and Montana. After working three really fun Middle Fork trips it…

Every spring there are a select few river runners that are the first on our Idaho rivers.  Shane Moser and Jon Green are usually among those first few.  They often head south to the Owyhee as soon as those desert rivers start to run.  But this year one of their first river expeditions was more…

WRO guide Ryan Casey wins the first year of the North Fork Championship!  This is an extreme kayak race down the North Fork of the Payette River in Idaho, probably one the hardest roadside whitewater sections in the country.  The race was held in a rapid named Jakobs Ladder, often regarded as the single most…

For most of early May, the temperatures were high and the snow was melting.  As a result, all the river gauges around Idaho were spiking and the rivers ran bank full.  Having spent a lot of the winter in the office, I knew it was time to get out and enjoy the melting snow.  We…