In the heat of the summer,  when I'm not  in my drysuit teaching with Sierra Rescue, I spend a chunk of the summer months up on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho. I've been guiding commercial whitewater trips for ECHO River Trips for the last 9 seasons. About 5 seasons ago...

It was a great and action-packed road trip up to Jackson, Wy for 8 days of swiftwater and wilderness first aid training. Compared with the snow we had for Sands' training last year, 73 and sunny was a dream come true. We got to explore some new training sites and incorporated a down-river scenario float...

Well, I spoke too soon. Despite the fact that the nice weather in Jackson Hole held through memorial day weekend, the following few days of training were less than desirable with temperatures hovering in the mid 4o's  and raining. Thats more like the Spring in Jackson I remember from last year. But we didn't let...

I really enjoy teaching our open enrollment courses. You never quite know what you're going to get. In this past River Rescue Certification course in Coloma, CA we had a wide range of Private and Commercial Boaters. Ranging from a couple who hadnt' been in the whitewater scene for a while and wanted to brush up...

I've been editing footage from classes last spring, and found some clips from an SRT / SRT-A in Coloma, CA where we were able to get hands-on canal rescue training in a canal. It was my first time  training in a canal, and I got to see firsthand why they are so dangerous. First, the...