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I’ve heard many kayakers utter the following words: “Kayaking improves your water-reading skills for rafting because you learn to respond to smaller and subtler currents.” Well this winter, I have had a lot of opportunity to test that theory. Here […]

This latest storm may have botched my plans for a weekend in Tahoe to visit Tessa and Brooke, but I’m certainly not going to complain!  Our weather system keeps fighting for a great, above-average water year here in California.  I checked California’s […]

Last weekend, ten All Outdoors guides met up in (very far) Northern California for a weekend of whitewater rafting on the Smith River. The Smith is one of the only un-dammed drainages remaining in California, beginning its course high in […]

Tessa, Adam F., Steve S., Heather and I did a fun private trip this fall on the Ice House run of the South Fork of Silver Creek (off Highway 50 above Pollock Pines). For those of you familiar with Coloma […]

  Despite freezing cold temperatures, muddy roads, and the more important fact that there are only about 100 cubic feet per second of water flowing downstream, I am still inextricably drawn to the river! What with the holiday season, and […]

Just a quick note for anyone who was as bummed as I was that the Tuolumne was supposed to “shut down” in four days… We get two more weekends of flow!! Yippee! So, September 7th and 8th, as well as […]

Last week, my family was in town for three days. Not that long of a time, right? And I love my family. But in a town like Coloma, (on the South Fork of the American River), you can’t really expect […]

For a long time now, All Outdoors has been providing inflatable kayaks for our guests on Middle Fork American River 2 and 3-day trips. “Duckies,” as we sometimes affectionately call them, are a great way for people to try out […]

Anyone ever read those horrible celebrity gossip magazines and see the pages where they try and make people feel just a little less average by taking pictures of really cool famous people doing everyday things, like drinking a Starbucks? Well […]

I’m feeling a little bit sappy today. Which, by the way, I just learned can also be expressed by saying: I’m feeling a little bit schmaltzy today. (Gotta love those Thesaurus tools in Word). Anyway, I’ve been reading a really […]