It's Snowing. Finally.

It's the end of February and it looks like winter may have finally blessed us with its presence. We're still holding out for Miracle March, but we also have our sights set on spring boating. The season will start early this year, and rivers like the North Fork of the American and the Carson will have short runs. But not to worry -- the Truckee and Middle Fork of the American have guaranteed dam releases through the summer. We won't see the epic flows we did last year, but the boating season won't be a total loss. 

IRIE Rafting and Truckee Thursdays

We're glad to announce that we will be participating in Truckee Thursdays for the remainder of the summer!  We would like to thank the Tahoe Downtown Merchants Association for allowing IRIE Rafting company to participate in this great event.  In addition to joining the great party and hanging out with many of our favorite local business owners, we will also be raffling off two 1/2 day Truckee River white water rafting trips for six.  Each trip is a $400 value, and all the proceeds of the raffle will go to local non profit organizations, including the Truckee Skatepark illumination / expansion project.

Truckee Thursdays happens every Thursday evening in Old Town Truckee from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m.  There are three events left for this summer, August 11th, 18th and 25th.  Please come check out the event, listen to the band and enter to win your chance at an exciting Truckee River white water rafting trip!

New Truckee River Mile by Mile on California Creeks.

We're stoked to announce that our new description of the 18 miles of the Truckee River between Boca Dam and Crystal Peak State Park (Verdi, NV) has been published on the California Creeks Website.  Here's the direct link to our mile by mile, which we're proud to say includes lots of cool photos like this one:

As mentioned in our feature piece in the Reno Gazette-Journal earlier this Spring, we are pleased to be offering an exciting full day white water rafting trip on this stretch of the Truckee River and have had the opportunity to run it quite a bit since early May both with commercial guests and on fun guide training trips.  We hope that sharing the up-to-date information and photos that we've gathered during these trips will encourage other boaters in the community to come explore this scenic and exciting class III+ white water corridor.

Although many people here at IRIE contributed to this project, we'd especially like to thank our Operations Manager Erik for creating the final write up and of course, Bill Tuthill from California Creeks for being so receptive to our contributions and handling the web publishing of our submission.

That's Rafting Presents... That's Kayaking??

You read it right.  As mentioned in our new ad in The Banks Mag (A Kayaking Magazine made in Banks, ID), IRIE Rafting is excited to roll out our new Kayak Support Services.  Now, of course we know we're not the only Class V rafting company out there, not at all.  Still, we can't help but notice how often we're out rafting on a cliffy creek somewhere in northern California and the only other boaters we see are kayakers.  So we started having all kinds of crazy ideas: like "maybe these guys would like to eat something other than that Clif Bar that's been marinating in their PFD for two years?" and "I wonder if they want more overnight gear than just a space blanket and a backpacking stove?"

We're not sure.  We know that you class IV and V kayakers out there are really hard core, but if you've ever secretly yearned for someone to run your shuttle for you, or wanted a safety raft waiting for you at the bottom of those fifty foot falls, or maybe just really wanted to do a four day wilderness trip but couldn't handle the logistics... we've got your back.

It's Not Winter Anymore!

The sun is shining and the snow is melting--finally! Check out Jill Oberly's article on her high-water rafting experience with IRIE in the Reno Gazette-Journal.