The Latest Word from ECHO River Trips

The Rogue River peaked last night at 100,000 cfs after a few days of warm rain. During the summer, we float down the river at 1,000 to 5,000 cfs so this is as much as 100 times as much water than we normally see floating down the canyon!
This is great news for the Rogue because [...]

Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum will once again be joining us for a three day trip on the Tuolumne River that we like to call “Bluegrass on Whitewater.” We spend each day paddling down the Class IV rapids of the Tuolumne during the day. When we reach camp, our guides prepare delicious meals while the [...]

We’ve recently made several improvements to our photo site. The biggest is the ability to order a CD with all of the pictures of your trip for just $40. To do this, simply login to you Photo Site account, click the “order CD,” and follow the directions to pay securely with your credit card.
We added [...]

We have a limited number of long sleeved ECHO shirts available with a fun new logo. This is a 100% organic cotton shirt made by the Beneficial T’s branch of Patagonia.
We have all sizes (S-XXL) available in white as well as sizes XL and XXL in a fun gray. The shirt costs $26 which includes [...]

This is the most recent report from Geoff, who is spending his winter as the Station Manager of a science outpost in Greenland. Geoff guides for us on the Rogue.
In case you haven’t heard, I have once again turned my back to common sense and returned to the North Pole just in time for winter. [...]

Just in time for the holidays, we are offering gift certificates for our river trips. You can purchase one for a specific dollar amount or you can cover the amount of an entire trip.
Gift certificates make nice gifts for family, friends, and co-workers. We can send them to you or directly to the participant in [...]

Our 10 day professional guide school in Idaho is really starting to fill up. The maximum size for this school will be sixteen trainees, four trainers, and two assistant trainers. We’ve already received six applications for the sixteen spots and it’s only December!
Our Idaho guide school will be a ten day school with [...]

We have been discussing retro designs here at ECHO World Headquarters for the past few weeks as we come up fresh designs for our ECHO gear (cups, hats, shirts, etc). Dick trumped all of us by bringing in the very first ECHO t-shirt ever. Truly retro!
There will be limited number of long sleeved organic cotton [...]

Would you date this man?
Adam Farmer, ECHO guide and Rogue River manager, is a very enterprising young man. Having broken up with his long-time girlfriend and waiting in Seattle for the rafting season to begin, Adam decided he would like some female company. So he logged onto Craigslist, went to the personals, and made [...]