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Textbook River Guide Ingenuity on Bear Camp Road
by Hata Hill
This year we ran a couple of 5 day Rogue trips, which we love because they afford the option of a layover day and more time to enjoy the beauty of the Rogue. Our July 3rd launch was one of these, which meant that we took [...]

Here’s a glimpse into the lives of some of our river guides during the winter months. Over the years we’ve found that most guides travel, teach, ski patrol, or hole up in a shack in the San Juan Mountains during the Fall and Winter months.
Shawn White decided against going back to her real job and [...]

Dan and Sonja are proud to announce Donovan Clavey Martin, the newest member of the ECHO family, who entered this world last Sunday, September 24, 2006 at 2:31 PM. Donovan came in at 7 pounds, 13 ounces, and 21 inches long. He has quite the geneology for river guiding as both of his parents are [...]

In celebration of Independence Day, ECHO Idaho guides joined the local Salmon community and showed off our new rafts in the annual Salmon River Days 4th of July Parade. We lined up behind the Salmon, Idaho girl’s softball team, the Salmon Rodeo princess truck, and the Whiskey Willie’s float with two of our beautiful new [...]

We know that ECHO guests and guides are well traveled people, and we have seen photographs of people wearing our T shirts in some of the most interesting and exotic places in the world. We have decided that it would be fun to have a place on our web site where you could [...]

Many of our guests ask what our guides do in the off-season. Well, this season Jeremy Matlock and Adam Farmer spent their time working on a short film titled “In Search of Brokeback Mountain.” Jeremy sent a copy to ECHO World Headquarters here in Oakland a few weeks ago and we loved it. We are [...]

ECHO guides Adam, Tessa, Zach, and Robyn took a trip up to Northern California’s Smith River this past weekend to explore it for our upcoming guide school. They ran the Middle Fork and North Fork, as well as the famous Class IV-V Oregon Hole Gorge.
If the water conditions are right in March, they are hoping [...]

Adam Farmer, ECHO guide and Oregon River manager, is spending the winter at ECHO’s luxurious doublewide mobile home near the Rogue River. All was well until a very distinct smell told him that skunks had moved into the space below the trailer. Now Adam had a challenge that would put his degree in business [...]

Zachary Collier, guide extraordinaire, ECHO web mister, and year-round employee, is recovering from a very broken wrist. Zach was roller boarding in the Oakland Hills when he found himself on a very steep, windy section and out of control. For those of you who know Oakland, he was flying down Skyline, just above [...]

Two of our veteran Rogue guides, Maggie and Hata, have recently moved closer to ECHO World Headquarters onto a houseboat in Sausalito. Maggie recently graduated from Humboldt State University with a degree in dance and they moved here while they are waiting for the river season to begin again. Hata is enrolled in classes to [...]