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Our office staff and river guides are the most responsible and professional folks in the river rafting business. From your first phone call to your farewell at the end of the trip, we are dedicated to providing you with a warm and memorable experience.
Dick & Joe
Joe Daly was born and raised on the Susquehanna River in rural upstate New York. After finishing college at the State University of New York at Albany, he worked as a teacher for 10 years in New York and California before meeting Dick Linford and forming ECHO in 1971. After 35 years of operating ECHO, Joe remains active in all aspects of the business. He is personally “on the river” about 20-25 days per season - smiling all the way. Joe was also the president
of the
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust
for ten years.
Dick Linford grew up in western Wyoming and New Mexico. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, he taught high school until forming ECHO with Joe. Dick served on the Board of Directors of American Rivers, the country’s principal river preservation organization, for nine years, and was also president
of America Outdoors, the
national association for outfitters. Like Joe, he spends 20-25 days a year guiding on ECHO trips.
Office Staff
Zachary Collier was born and raised in Nevada and was drawn to California where he discovered backpacking, skiing, mountain biking, and river rafting. Zach soon began exploring rivers throughout California, which lead him to raft various rivers around the world. Zach started guiding for ECHO on California’s Tuolumne River in 1998 while finishing graduate school at Stanford University. After four years of teaching and traveling, Dick and Joe hired him to help run ECHO. Zach now manages all of the day-to-day operations and still manages to get in some “river time” every summer.
Kerry McDonald-Low grew up in the Puget Sound area and moved to Portland in her teens. A former international fashion model, Kerry has traveled extensively and written numerous articles for her family’s publishing business, with magazines in the windsurfing, snow boarding, wake boarding, wake surfing, and houseboat industries. She has been a Hood River local for the past 15 years and has three kids; two in college and one heading to a new job in New York. With the kids now gone (some of the time - they keep coming back!) and working out of her home for the last 25 years, Kerry is glad to be in the heart of Hood River with ECHO.
Janda Siebert grew up in the Texas panhandle before graduating from the University of Kansas and heading west. She arrived in Oregon in 2001 and quickly fell in love with the mountains, beaches, forests, and (of course) the rivers. Janda began working with ECHO at the new office in Hood River, OR. She loves to share her enthusiasm for the great outdoors with our guests and encourages everyone to spend as much time as possible in the wilderness.
Adam Farmer was born and raised in San Diego and graduated from UC Davis in 2000. After a few summers on the American River in California, he came to ECHO in 2003 to guide the Rogue. Adam has run rivers all over the world including the Zambezi in Africa, the Kaituna in New Zealand, and the Pacuare in Costa Rica. Adam is spending his winter working at the new office in Hood River and will be leading trips down the Rogue River this summer.
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