Recent Posts from ECHO Staff
Thank you for another wonderful season!
Thank you to all of you who joined us on the river this summer. On Saturday our last trip of the season come off the water and we finished one of our most successful seasons ever. Most of our trips were full AND every single person left their trip with a huge smile! Here are some comments from our last few trips of the year: “On the last night, Michael (at the group last hurrah) paid me the highest compliment: I was his favorite guest ever....
More Guest Quotes From the 2012 Season
"The guides guide, cook, teach, participate, and lead. They become your friends not because it's their job, but because of who they are! When you've met them on another trip, you don't have to introduce yourself again. You don't have to meet family but once, and that is what they become!" "amazing, awsome, flabergasting, fun, goofy, terrific, and i loved the costums!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "Equalled or exceeded ECHO professional standards for safety and fun. Particularly good cuisine." "These guys/gals can cook, as well as guide! They all have...
Guest Quotes From this Season
"Really impressive. Lovely w the kids. All around pleasant fun polite silly professional. These guides made the trip superb." "1st class all the way. Thanks so much, hope to see you again. Janda, Zach: thanks for the great trip and boat beta. Hata, Colleen, Dewey, Tate, thanks for the guitar and Mando rental and the great times!!! : )" "Even though I didn't have young kids on the trip myself, it was so impressive to see the way the guides and esp. Billy treated the kids....
Halfway To Halfway & Other River Stories
ECHO co-owner Dick Linford has co-written and compiled a book of true river stories. The book is titled Halfway To Halfway & Other River Stories and it is available in both kindle and in hard copy at Amazon. These 31 stories are not your typical sagas of crashing whitewater and incredible acts of daring, They are the more offbeat tales about the larger-than-life characters, strange happenings, funny events, ironic twists of fate and tragedies that have taken place in the world or river running. There is...
Event: A Flurry of Changes
What: Reception at 5:30 PM, Speakers at 6:15 PM When: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 Where: KEEN Footwear, 926 NW 13th Ave. #210 / Portland, OR 97209 How: Register at Eventbrite We feel like we're always talking about snowpack this time of year, but that is because it plays such a huge role in our rafting season each summer. Reduced snowfall doesn't just impact skiers and snowboarders, it affects our entire river system. Changes to snowpack and receding glaciers in the Cascade Range will play a part...
I'm in Love With a River Guide
Our good friend Laurie Lewis just posted this wonderful video to her song "I'm in Love With a River Guide" featuring many ECHO guides. You'll probably recognize Ian, Maggie, Heidi, Zach, Krista, JT, Kelly, Vlad, Dick, Joe, Dewi, Jeff, Dale, Adam, Martin, Audrey, Anthony, and Brian. There are also a couple of great shots with long time guests and friends Margie and Don. Parts of this song were written on our annual Bluegrass Rafting Trips!
2011 Wild Rivers Night
Join us at Keen in Portland for our 2nd Annual Wild Rivers Night on November 29th, 2011. We'll be premiering our new Middle Fork of the Salmon film (view trailer) as well as showing conservation and adventure films from wild rivers! Date: November 29th, 2011 Time: 6 - 8 PM (Zach will do a Siberia slideshow at 5:30) Location: Keen's Great Room (926 Northwest 13th #210, Portland, OR) [wp_connect_comments href="" width="600" num_posts="6" colorscheme="light" /]
Our 2012 Guide School on the Rogue River
We just set May 13-18, 2012 as our next professional guide school. If you've ever been interested in learning to row a raft or become a professional guide, this is the trip for you! We'll spend 6 days traveling down the famous Wild and Scenic Rogue River learning basic whitewater skills, the art of wilderness cooking, camp set-up, and boat rigging. To learn more and sign up, please visit our Professional Guide School page.
[Trailer] Middle Fork of the Salmon Short Film
This summer our friend Nate Herbeck joined a Middle Fork of the Salmon trip to make a short film about the Middle Fork and our trips. Here's a short trailer he put together as a sneak peek. We'll be premiering the film this November in Portland. Stay tuned!
Some of our Favorite Quotes From 2011!
"Don't change a thing. You guys do an amazing job from the customer service to the prep and answering questions and especially to the on the water experience. This truly was the time of my life you will see me again count on it!!" - Justin, May 5th launch "Hands down, most AMAZING trip I' ve been on! (And I've been on some pretty cool trips). The scenery was breath taking, the guides were fantastic/fun people with a lot of interesting knowledge/know-how, and the food was...
