The Latest Word from ECHO River Trips

by Zachary Collier (and improved on by Janda Siebert)
The Futaleufu River is known for its turquoise water, big rapids, and jaw dropping scenery. Located in Southern Chile in the region of Patagonia in the Andes Mountains, this part of Chile is strikingly beautiful, and for the most part undeveloped.
To get to the river, we [...]

In National Geographic’s Journeys of a Lifetime, you’ll find 500 of the world’s greatest trips, including a wonderful top-ten list of whitewater rivers throughout the world. The list got us excited here at the ECHO world headquarters because this year we’re running trips on 3 of the top 5 rivers listed! Read on to discover [...]

We’ve got a trip brewing this fall that no beer lover will want to miss. Join us Sept. 11-14 on this 4-day Rogue River trip with special guests from the Double Mountain Brewery in Hood River, OR. Each evening, they’ll transform your campsite into their taproom as you sample and savor craft brews.
Double Mountain brewers [...]

Few things complete a day on the river better than a good meal followed by great music. There’s something about the strumming of an acoustic guitar accompanied by the crackling of a fire that harkens back to a simpler time when a full belly and friends were more than enough to satisfy our needs. Bluegrass [...]

This October ECHO will run an incredible river trip exploring the tiny nation of Bhutan. Located in Central Asia sandwiched between India and Nepal, this Himalayan Kingdom has a rich history and has retained its ancient culture and traditions in the face of modernization. Bhutan has become increasingly open to foreigners in the last decade [...]

This August, join ECHO and our friends at ARTA River Trips for a memorable trip of rapids and rhapsody. ECHO is excited to welcome back famed bluegrass musicians Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum for a trip down the Tuolumne River this summer.
Grammy-award winning Laurie Lewis and mandolinist extraordinaire Tom Rozum, self proclaimed “river rats”, [...]

You may recall that the last trip of our 2008 season was in commemoration of the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act’s 40th Anniversary (see blog post Sept. 4, 2008). This spectacular trip offered our guests a special opportunity to travel down the Rogue with representatives of the American Rivers & the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center in [...]

How sweet it was. ECHO has just completed its autumn tour of Turkey with an intrepid group of 12 adventurers. We had a great time, with many sites visited and much deliciously prepared food consumed. The added bonus was that we blended beautifully as a group.
Most of us arrived a day early in Istanbul and [...]

by Tate Higgins
It’s Just Rocks and Water (River Rescue Part I)
Our mid-morning float is punctuated by the occasional class III rapid. The upstream wind is gone and the current is swift enough to carry us through the sweeping high desert landscape of eastern Oregon without much effort on the oars. After six days on the [...]

Turkey is becoming a tourist Mecca for Europeans and Americans, and is now among the top ten tourist destinations in the world. Tourism has grown from around 8 million visitors in 2000 to an estimated 21.2 million in 2007. While Europeans have long recognized Turkey as a hospitable country, Americans have generally considered it to [...]