When I taught whitewater kayaking classes at UC Davis, I liked to tell my students that every year, I got to enjoy California’s snowpack twice: Once in the winter when I went skiing, and then again in ...

Anyone familiar with the whitewater rafting community and culture knows it’s the people — the guides themselves — who can make a trip a special memory for a family, group of friends or strangers ...

As much as Travis Hale loves snow — he is a Heavenly Ski Resort professional ski patroller, after all — there were more than a few times during this year’s record-breaking winter when he dreamed of ...

GO TO BRIAN HICKEY. WELL, IF YOU’RE WATCHING THIS TV BROADCAST, IT MEANS THAT YOU ARE JUST AN HOUR OR SLIGHTLY MORE AWAY FROM SOME OF THE BEST EASY TO ACCESS WHITEWATER RAFTING IN THE COUNTRY. THE ...

In Colorado Rapids, our raft exploded in the best possible way. It was our third day floating the Lower Deschutes River, and we’d been running splashy but mostly mellow rapids in 90 degree desert heat ...