The Forest Service and BLM are allowing us to run two extra Rogue River trips in May for 2006 and we have decided to run these as lodge trips. We are now running Rogue River lodge trips on May 16, 20, 24, and 30, 2006.

Lodge trips are a comfortable way to see the Wild and Scenic Rogue River. We run the fun Class II and III rapids of the Rogue each day and “kick it old school” at the lodges each night. Each of the lodges have a dining room where we will sit down and have dinner as a group. They also have comfortable dual occupancy rooms with BEDS!

This is a nice way to spend three days in Southern Oregon. Learn more about Rogue River Lodge 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 these high flows are above the level of most of our camps. The high water revitalizes the sandy beaches by depositing more sediment(sand) and making our camps bigger and cleaner.

A few ECHO guides ran the Rogue on New Years of 2003 at 30,000 cfs and reported that Mule Creek Canyon was full. 100,000 cfs must have been really interesting.

We are pround to announce our 2006 wine trip on the Rogue River!

For 2006, Ludovic Dervin from Mumm Napa is joining our trip as wine expert. Ludovic is a wine maker at Mumm Napa who completed his studies in wine and champagne in Champagne, France.

This is a four day Rogue trip starting on June 20th for $785/person. You can learn more about this trip on our “Wine and Whitewater” page.

Our trips on the Tuolumne and Middle Fork are done for the year and we are running a few more September Rogue trips. One of these is a Yoga trip with ECHO guide and Yoga instructor Dennis Eagan. He calls it “Wild Yoga.” Dennis leads Yoga workshops all over the western hemisphere and likes the Rogue because of the wild setting and the open spaces for groups.

This is a four day trip starting on Friday, Septmeber 9th.

Combine the scenery of the Rogue River with the comforts of a wilderness lodge. We are offering a special price for a three day lodge trip on the Rogue River for the Labor Day Weekend in September 2005. This is a camp/lodge trip which means that we spend the first night camping and the second night at lodge along the River.

Camp/lodge trips are regularly priced at $670 per person and we are reducing the cost $100 to $570/person.

It’s time to start thinking about doing a lodge trip on the Rogue.

This trip involves rafting down the Wild and Scenic Rogue River each day and staying in a beautiful lodge each night. The guides will prepare lunches on the river each day and we’ll arrive at the lodges in the afternoon. The lodge staff will prepare a delightful dinner for us to enjoy at a dinner table. One of the lodges even has a unique five hole golf course.

This is the perfect trip for those of you looking for a quick trip away from the real world. Each night you’ll enjoy a double occupancy room with beds and a shower.

This year (2005) we’ve decided to run two wine trips on the Rogue River. The first will be with Rob McNeil, Director of Winemaking at Mumm Cuvee Napa on June 13th, 2005. The second will be with Jim O’Shea, Director of Hospitality for Sterling Vineyards on June 22nd.

These are usually very popular trips due to the combination of wine and the fantastic wilderness setting of the Rogue.

We’ve set dates for the two trips this year with Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum on the Tuolumne and Rogue Rivers.

They’ll be joining us on a four day trip on the Rogue from July 27-30. We will be camping for the first two nights of this trip and spend the third night at Half Moon Bar Lodge. The Rogue will be immediately followed by their tradition three day Tuolumne trip on August 1-3.

The dates were chosen so that the two trips can be combined into an eight day whitewater bluegrass fiesta! For information and details, check out out “Bluegrass on Whitewater.”

We now are offering some three-day camp/lodge trips on Oregon’s Rogue River. We will camp out the first night, then stay at a very pleasant lodge the second night. Dates for these trip are June 25, July 16 and July 30.