The 'AO Weekly: Company News and Entertaining Stories' Category Archive

All-Outdoors just expanded our business on the Tuolumne River and Cherry Creek, which means we have twice as many available rafting trips up there and, even better, some new ones! With all those launch dates to choose from, and with […]

All-Outdoors’ Next Generation; from left to right: “Hootie” Dunkle: President; Hayden Hennicke: Vice President; Jordan Freer, VP Face-Making; Wyatt Pope: Social Chair and Devoted Husband; Myra Pittman: Director of All Mischeivious Plots The Association of Future Raft Guides met on […]

We’ve talked about it for years, saying what a shame it was that “Bob” and “Joe” have never been on the same trip together, because they’re both pretty neat guys and apparently love rafting almost as much as we do. […]

Cherry Creek… fourteen Class V rapids, 200 feet of elevation lost in one mile… one of the most intimidating and exhilerating rivers to raft on. And that’s if you’re paddling. The thought of having to make all the decisions of […]

(Pun actually was intended there.) Although it is true that we love all the families that come rafting with us throughout the year, the title actually refers instead to one particular family: the Armstrongs, founders and owners of All Outdoors […]

Wrap (n): The less-than-ideal situation in which a boat is held against a rock or boulder in the river for an indeterminant amount of time by the force of the current. When I and seven other guides got to the […]

Above: AO owner Scott A on the Nile river, in Ethiopia For months now, I’ve been freaking people out by talking about “getting our Ethiopians” and “finding a place for our Ethiopians to live this summer.” ‘Lest you think I’m […]

We get creative, and usually try to ensure that we amuse everyone else in the process. Don’t get me wrong… these are not angry fights, he-said, she-said rumor mills, or anything quite that serious. (We’re all pretty content with our […]

It’s Spring Break. Not that you’d know it with the gray clouds, peals of thunder, and muddy puddle of a front yard we have here at the River Office in Lotus. Am I sitting on a beach in Cancun? Sipping […]

Scott Armstrong, Owner and Operations Manager here at All-Outdoors, is temporarily trading in the logistics and adventure of a rafting company for the bifocals, slide projectors, and esteem of the intellectual community. In a slightly hurtful statement the other day, […]