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Apr
22
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River Safety Training Submitted by Johnny Besancon
Anyone from Oregon will agree that April is the perfect time of year for a…
Mar
28
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The perfect maiden voyage with OWA…
Pre-Trip: The spring break trip started out a day early. I emailed asking if anyone wan…
Mar
12
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Those that boat with me often know that I try to do a yearly Wilson river float ever since my first run on the 2013 OWA trip. In…
Feb
17
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Ok, I flipped my raft. Let’s get that out of the way right up front. I’ll talk more about that later but suffice to say at this …
Mar
19
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There you are! You have run the rapid successfully, and are sitting in an eddy at the bottom, feeling relieved and happy to hav…
Feb
17
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The annual OWA Rogue Trip was getting ready to roll in early February with a launch date of February 15. The trip was supposedl…
Jan
01
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OWA’s annual New Year’s Day Paddle could not have asked for a more beautiful start to 2014. In spite of unusually low water leve…
Nov
11
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We couldn’t have had better weather this time of year! Absolutely gorgeous! Highs in the mid 50’s and lows couldn’t have gotten …
Sep
27
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As if being awakened from a beautiful dream reality… the end of summer came with plenty of warning.... a perpetual and steady d…
Sep
13
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Trip Report (Of sorts): Colorado Flood Response September 13th, 2013
I suppose when the phone rang just after midnight on Fr…
Sep
02
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It all started with an email from J. Hollywood (OWA Membership Director) in late July. “It’s time to take it International”. Let…
Aug
18
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River trips mean many different things to most of us, and even people on the same trip can take vastly different things away fro…
Jun
26
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We are proud to be home from the first commercial trip down the Chetco River in over a decade. Before the Biscuit Fire in 2002 A…
Jun
14
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Eighteen women launched from Buck Hollow on June 14 with seven cat boats, two rafts, five inflatable kayaks and one hard shell k…