Writer Brian E. Clark paddles a hard-shell white-water kayak on an OARS trip down the Yampa River near the Colorado-Utah border. (Michael McCoy) If and when life returns to normal — whatever the heck ...

Anyone familiar with the whitewater rafting community and culture knows it’s the people — the guides themselves — who can make a trip a special memory for a family, group of friends or strangers ...

A heroic river ranger with Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) took on the class III rapids of the Arkansas River at around midnight on July 6 to save three people whose raft flipped during a guided ...

Whitewater rafting in Colorado’s early season often calls for wetsuits, helmets, and at least a bit of know-how. While snowmelt is lighter in July and the rapids aren’t as intense, there’s still ...

In Colorado Rapids, our raft exploded in the best possible way. It was our third day floating the Lower Deschutes River, and we’d been running splashy but mostly mellow rapids in 90 degree desert heat ...

When you think of Upstate New York in the summertime, you picture the waterfalls, hiking trails or even the local shopping towns. But Upstate NY is home to some of the best waterways and rivers. There ...

As skiers, we spend all winter looking at the forecast, keeping track of how many inches of snow our mountain has gotten, where the snowpack lies in terms of annual average, and so on. But when the ...

If and when life returns to normal — whatever the heck that will mean — this spring or summer, one of the first things I want to do is get on a river with my kids, blast through frothy rapids, sleep ...