Taking a NOLS River Expedition
Wondering what a NOLS river course is like? Get the inside scoop from instructors and students.
Wondering what a NOLS river course is like? Get the inside scoop from instructors and students.
Going on an expedition is one thing—going with your spouse can be something else entirely.
NOLS river expeditions offer chances to paddle both calm waters and up to Class III whitewater in kayaks, oar rigs, and rafts.
A NOLS instructor applies his teaching skills to a river expedition with his family on the Salmon River.
We arrived at Velvet Falls, one of the first notable rapids of this family trip down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River.
After scouting the rapid, my family looked at me curiously and settled into the raft with a bit of resignation to our fate. I reassured them that everything would be great and repeated, “were just going to go down the middle, punch the hole…no problem, uhhh…definitely hold on!”
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