Behind the Boats

That’s it for us in 2020! Certainly a weird year with Covid acting as a 3rd wrench (after weather and water) but everything generally went about as well as could be hoped for. We struggled with water levels just about…

We’re down to the last few days of our season. While there is still plenty of good paddling weather left in the fall, this is generally the last week it makes sense for us to be open as most people…

Water levels are looking good! Weather is looking mostly good! Sounds like we might get 3/10ths an inch of rain early Sunday morning and a little headwind to go with it later in the day but can’t complain about sunny…

Thursday night update: drops in water levels out of Castle Rock earlier so we’ll get a little breathing room here by Saturday night. Wednesday evening update: Man, this is so painfully similar to a few weeks ago when we called…

Water levels are holding mostly steady or dropping so we shouldn’t have any trouble keeping the sandbars we’ve got. Rain this week was less than expected and the forecast through the weekend looks pretty great (maybe a little breazy Sunday).…

Monday morning update: Water levels are continuing to recede. It’s a little tight today and tomorrow but we’ll start getting some more breathing room by Wednesday and that should get us to the start of the weekend. Beyond that, still…

Wednesday Afternoon Update It’s official – sandbars will be gone for a few days starting Friday Dams upstream just started pumping out more than enough water to shut us down and it’s likely to go higher yet. We’ll have great…

Saturday afternoon update: Storms held off today, that was nice! Water levels up north have peaked and should start receding down here on Monday evening into Tuesday. If the current forecast holds, we should have plenty of sandbars for this…

Conditions are good and getting better. Sandbars are out in large numbers and by Thursday it’ll be more sand than river. The weather is looking phenomenal for being on a river. Highs in the upper 80s (albeit sticky so more…