River Guide School
Dates: May
13 - 18, 2012 (6 days)
Meet: Grants Pass, Oregon
Requirements: Sense of adventure
Price: $895 (discounts for pre-training work)
Learn what it takes to be a professional river guide
If you're interested in working as a professional river guide, our Professional Guide School offers the basic skills necessary. You will experience harrowing and heroic moments, learn a plethora of camp skills, and learn to guide a raft safely down the river.
Throughout the days and evenings, you will also learn how to set up a great river camp, cook meals with Dutch ovens, rig rafts, tie knots, and un-wrap rafts from rocks. We provide a fairly rigorous schedule, but we make sure that you'll have a great time as well.
Why attend an ECHO guide school?
Our guide instructors are among the best. All instructors are ECHO head guides and ECHO area managers. Most importantly, we keep our trainer to trainee ratio below four to one so that we can maximize the amount of time our participants have to practice their skills on the water.
ECHO's guide school is different from others because we focus on the skills it takes to be a wilderness river guide. We emphasize river camps, rowing, and dutch oven cooking in addition to river running.
- Zach Collier, General Manager
Graduates from the ECHO guide school should finish this course with enough skills to train on our rivers during the summer months. Individuals who do well in our school may have the opportunity to work in one of our operations after a few summer training runs. This guide school will provide the necessary training needed to work with other rafting companies as well.
Disclaimer: Guide School schedule and location are subject to weather, river flows, and open roads.
