Guide Staff

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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 an 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 being making safety our prime mission. Its a skill that has devolved over the past 18 years we have been 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 program 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 appeal to you our guides take pride in teaching advanced river techniques

  • Matt Robinson ;New owner and head guide. 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 advance wilderness instructor, Specializes in Youth programs and Young Adult leadership.
  • Billy Hinch: Head guide and past owner having over 11 years of canoeing.
  • AL Godman :has been assist guiding for the past 10 years, great with kids and love to teach
  • Kryn Dykema; assistant guide and 2nd year adventurer been on the river since a young boy.
  • Lance Bender: assistant guide and 2nd year adventurer, strong and full of excitement.
  • Terri Kirwin: Assist guide who works with woman trips.
  • Thomas Larson: new trainee

     

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

  Innovation is the key to our unique trips.

Canyon Passages
1630 A 30th Street, Suite 482  Boulder, CO 80301
303-449-6578
woody@canyonpassages.com

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