Three Day Trips on the Rogue in June
(e-News
special)
In anticipation of high water in early June, we are converting our four
day Rogue camping trips on June 6, 7, 13 and 14 to three-day trips,
and offering them at $549 per person.
This is a
great price, and June is a beautiful time to be on the Rogue River. Learn
more about the Rogue 
Guide School Featured in Paddler Magazine
Check out a feature article in the March/April issue of Paddler magazine.
Idaho writer Laura Stavoe joined our guide school last spring and as a 40-year-old mother of twins gives a sensitive account of how she fared. Her story is both funny and poignant, and certainly worth reading.
2006 ECHO Guide School
If attending a guide school sounds fun to you after reading Laura’s article, we still have space on the school that runs from March 25 through April 1. The school will involve running the Rogue River in Oregon and the Smith in California.
Instruction will cover camp cooking, river knots, reading
water, maneuvering oar and paddle rafts, boat repair and river rescue
techniques. Cost
is $795 per person. Learn
More about our Guide School
March Guide Profile
Adam Farmer is in his seventh year of guiding and his third year with ECHO. Adam has a degree in business from UC Davis, which he has put to use managing our Rogue River operation.
He
is the guy we wrote about last year, who used the ECHO web site as a
dating service. Stuck in Seattle
and between relationships (guides are ALWAYS between relationships) last
winter he went on Craigslist to find a date. When he found someone
he liked, she asked him for a photograph. He didn’t have one so
he referred her to the guides section of the ECHO web site. She
logged on, checked him out and liked what she saw.
He spent this winter
tending bar in Grants Pass and is heading to Texas next week to guide
on the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park. He will then instruct
on our March guide school before returning to manage the Rogue. Learn
More about Adam
Contest
Our name-the-camp contest was popular beyond our dreams. The river, by the way, was the Rogue, and the campsite was Horseshoe Bend. Over 100 people submitted guesses, and many got the correct river. Only three guests –and very few guides-- named the camp. Dan Valens of Corvallis, Oregon was first, and is putting his $500 toward a Middle Fork trip.
This month’s contest: tell us what percent of normal the anticipated run-off for the Middle Fork is, as of March 10. The first two winners get their choice of an ECHO T-shirt or an ECHO hat.
The winners will be announced on our blog (the Latest Word) this afternoon.
We look forward to our next river trip together!
Sincerely,
Dick Linford and Joe Daly, Owners
ECHO River Trips
116 Oak St Suite #1, Hood River, OR 97031
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