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Guide School

White Water Raft Guide School - 7 Days

Northern California /

Multi-Day /

Full Spice: Advanced (Class IV)

  • Trip Time: Arrive 4:00-8:00pm the night before
  • Trip Length: 7 Days
  • Swimming Skills Required
  • Meals: Lunch Included Everyday
  • Camping: Included each night

PRICING

Session 1: Monday May 3 - Sunday May 9, 2021

$500

Session 2: Monday June 7 - Sunday June 13, 2021

$500

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For Fun or Employment!

Raft California’s Guide School is a 7 day training course to learn the skills to guide rafts down white water rapids! This is not just for people seeking employment, but open to anyone who wants to run rivers!

We start at our South Fork American River Campground with both on and off river instruction on the Forks of the American River. We usually travel to others rivers like the North Yuba, Truckee, Upper Sacramento, Upper Klamath, Lower Klamath, Trinity & East Carson. The rivers we travel to depend on flows as several are free flowing and depend on snowmelt. We want to take you to the best places for putting your raft guiding skills to use on river, so often the itinerary is flexible.

Lunch is included daily. Dinner & Breakfast are not included, except for 1 of each when we teach you how to cook for our overnight meals. The group usually shops & cooks for other meals together.

For the duration of the guide school we are camping. We will provide the space for camping and you are to bring your own gear (tent, sleeping bag, camper van etc). There is typically no power at most locations (including our main camp in Lotus), many of our guides carry around solar charges. We also have an office in Lotus just a couple miles from camp that you can use to charge things , connect to WiFi, as well as a washer/dryer for laundry.

Whitewater Rafting Guide School Emphasis:

  • River hydrology
  • River navigation
  • Reading whitewater
  • Raft equipment rigging
  • Equipment maintenance and repair
  • Personal rescue equipment & signals
  • Commercial safety put-in talks
  • Camp/kitchen operations
  • Knot tying
  • Leading safe, enjoyable whitewater rafting trips
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS

Included in the cost of Raft Guide School:

  • Transportation to and from camp to the instruction locations
  • PFD (although most like to purchase a guide PFD prior to guide school as these allow for more mobility than our customer PFDs).
  • Helmet (also something most purchase)
  • On river equipment (ie: raft, paddle, ropes etc…)
  • Camping space & river use fees
  • Lunch everyday
TRIP ITENERARY

Arrive the night before at our South Fork Campground

Day 1

  • 8:00am meet & greet, intro to Guide School
  • noon(ish) lunch
  • afternoon – rafting or off river training

Day 2-7

  • Rafting, Camping & Fun

Once we have the schedule nailed down we will post it.

Directions

Meeting Location: Raft California South Fork American River Campground – 6500 Hwy 49, Lotus, CA 95651

About Raft California

With over 25 years of running the highest quality rafting trips and river tours, Raft California invites you to join us on one of our spectacular rafting adventures!

We have whitewater rafting trips on over 12 rivers in Northern California, Oregon, and into Nevada! Rivers include the South Fork American, Middle Fork American, North Fork American, North Yuba, Truckee, Tuolumne, Kaweah and more!.

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Raft California
6500 State Highway 49
Lotus, CA 95651
(530) 626-7385
info@raftcalifornia.com
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