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Facebook Contest |
Over the winter our crew spreads out all over the place to recuperate, spend time with family and friends, and pursue other interests that range from playing in the snow and reading books by the fire place, to work in archeology, boat building, teaching skiing in Germany or English in Brazil. As our season gets started we are more often in touch and there is a contagious delight every spring in returning to a community of people that shares the work and passion for the river that we do. These days our communications in social networking spaces allow us to follow a little bit of each others lives in the off-season more than we ever have before. It is certainly not the same as sharing a meal at camp below 8 foot rapid, but it is quite a treat to see smiling faces in January, even if it is just in photos on the computer. We're learning every day about how to use the technology to support our community and would love for you to join us there.
So, here's the deal: We're having the first of what we hope will be several Facebook contests. This one is easy. All you have to do is go to the Wild Rivers Expeditions Facebook page and fill out a contest entry form. (Be really nice and tell your friends and family to do so too. Pretty please.) This contest ends June 30, 2011. We'll pull the lucky winner from the bunch who will receive a free day trip for two that is flexible enough for you to come and boat with us when you can or give it to someone else if you wish. And then (drum roll, please...), stay tuned for upcoming, and more complex contests where we'll hope to challenge your knowledge, creativity and opinions.
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| 2011 Group Trips |
In 1962, Kenny ran a trip of 200 passengers for the Four Corners Geological Society. When his sons and other boatman talk about the trip they say that the fleet included every boat that could float in San Juan County. Over the course of its history, Wild Rivers Expeditions has taken dozens of specialized groups, particularly in the fields of archeology and geology down the San Juan.
This year, we're looking forward to trips with an assortment of geology groups, the Archeological Conservancy, Southwest Seminars, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, the Great Old Broads for Wilderness and A Woman's Way. We're also teaming up again with High Desert Dories to "go for the light" on an artist's workshop trip. We'll host our second Wilderness First Responder course with Wilderness Medicine Institute in July and hope to reunite the Explorer's Camp participants from trips that Kenny and Ansel Hall ran in the forties later in the summer. On any given day, we're scheming and dreaming about other potential trips to unite the experience of being on the river and learning about ourselves and our sense of place. And, while it's windy and kind of chilly out there today, we're already anticipating the delight of watching a group of people make any trip unique with their own perspectives and experience.
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| Stories Are Medicine |
Clarissa Pinkola Estes says that stories are medicine, and Barry Lopez said that they are sometimes more important than food for sustenance. Among other off-season activities, I spend a fair bit of time in meetings with other outfitters (often in cities, which make my Bluff residing brain overload within a few days). As a result, between travel, variety and interactions winter is often a time when I think a lot about our mission here at Wild Rivers. This year, I thought a lot about story. Whether it happens on a beach after dinner while on the river, over the phone, in the garden or on our porch the sharing of stories is as elemental to the experience of our trips and work as the oars on the boat. We learn about our place here in the stories of everything from the rocks to the scholars that join us on trips, and we come to understand and articulate that place with stories that represent our own experiences as well as that of others. This year marks the 54th season of Wild Rivers' trips on the San Juan, and we are doing our very best to learn, and care for the stories that have created that timeline. This May we'll open the doors on a gallery/museum project that we've been talking about for years. In the long run we're hoping that the space will become a collective creative project in which we search out and share the stories of boating history on the San Juan. To open this year we are absolutely ecstatic to be working with Dave Manley, a regional photographer whose images of this landscape, and its rock art make our desert river rat hearts race. We'll look forward to sharing a cup of coffee or a glass of iced tea and getting to be part of a conversation with all of you about art, experience, and story.
Visit Dave's website here.
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Facebook Contest
2011 Group Trips
Stories Are Medicine
Thanks For The Support
Featured River Trips
National Geographic Mapguide
  
Thanks For
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As always, we appreciate your willingness to join us on the river, to read our thoughts and stories and to support what we do here at Wild Rivers. Even if you don't have time for a trip, please do stop in if you are in the neighborhood for some iced lemonade or a treat from the garden!
Featured River Trips
Going for the Light: 2011 Dory Trip Focusing on Art and Photography
Location: San Juan River
Date: 6/1/11 - 6/9/11
Duration: 9 Days from Bluff to Clay Hills
The focus of this trip is to provide time for your art and photography, whether you work professionally, as an amateur, or simply enjoy journaling. We will travel in what we consider to be the Cadillac of all boats; whitewater dories.
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Great Old Broads for Wilderness FUNdraiser
Location: San Juan River
Date: 9/16/11 - 9/18/11
Duration: 3 Days from Bluff to Mexican Hat
Over the last two years, Wild Rivers Expeditions has raised $10,200 to benefit the Broads! Space is limited so be a Broad and give us a call today to make your reservation.
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National Geographic Mapguide
We're on the National Geographic's new Four Corners Region Geotourism Mapguide.
Visit the site to comment on our profile and then use the map to find your other favorite experiences in the region (like Tsakurshovi on Second Mesa).
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