Guide Staff

Our greatest resource is our Staff and how they run our specialty trips.

They bring the best out of people while we live together for three days, in a setting that hasn't changed much for millions of years.

Our guides know how to be flexible and allow the trip to form its own unique community. We have lots of fun while making safety our prime mission. It's a skill that has evolved over the past 21 years of leading trips.

Your guides are experienced, competent individuals, who have spent many years leading groups and acquiring their wilderness skills. They have completed at least 24 hours of Wilderness First Aid and CPR and hold current American Red Cross first-aid and CPR cards. All guides have over 1000 miles of guiding river experience. They share a genuine love of canoeing and the great outdoors. If expanding your paddling skills appeals to you, our guides take pride in teaching advanced river techniques.

  • Matt Robinson: Love's working with youth and raising environmental consciousness as well as teaching others to live in harmony with nature.
  • Cody Gale : Head guide and Advanced Wilderness instructor. Specializes in youth programs and young adult leadership.
  • Kryn Dykema; Guide and 5th year adventurer - been on the river since a young boy.
  • Lance Bender: Guide and 5th year adventurer - strong and full of excitement and Wilderness First Responder certified.
  • Dan Stadtler: Assistant guide with 3 years experience, including an educational background in environmental ed and wilderness tourism.

    Insurance regulations require that life jackets be worn at all times on the river and we will insist that this rule be followed.

  Innovation is the key to our unique trips.

Canyon Passages
805 Summer Hawk Dr. #Z151, Longmont, CO 80504
303-449-6578
canyonpassages@live.com

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