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Jul 12th
Monsoon season has struck here in Durango and it’s putting smiles on everyone’s face! Monsoons are important to southwest Colorado for a number of reasons and local residents look forward to their arrival every year.
Monsoons put an end to our driest time of year, they significantly lower our fire danger here in Durango. A second reason we love the short thirty minute rains is simply that they cool town of that hot desert heat we’re dealing with in June and July!
But the most important reason, and our favorite at Mountain Waters Rafting, is that rains adds water to our river. And so BIG WATER continues here in Durango. With another big spike in the water levels today we continue to have a record breaking season on the Animas. Come and join us for a few hours on the water, a little river time is what everyone needs!
Jul 7th
The Animas river continues to flow big from Silverton all the way to Durango as we continue through this epic summer of whitewater! With this much water, all of our trips through town are still filled with Class III action and plenty of splash!
Our Piedra River season is over as the water in that particular drainage has run out, but there’s still plenty of class four and five to be had on the Upper Animas. Mountain Waters continues to do weekly one day, two day, or three day trips out of Silverton!
Book with us now and come get some of the BIG WATER!!!
Jun 23rd
Temps in Durango have reached the 90′s and the cool mountain water lapping over the boats feels as refreshing as a cold glass of fresh squeezed lemonade! The perfect thing for a hot summer day!
Our River of Lost Souls, the Animas River, continues to flow at an impressive rate, registering at 3,400 cubic feet per second this morning. Quite impressive for late June. The customer sales reps are anxiously awaiting your call, and the boatman simply can’t wait to get you out there for some summer fun!
Daily trips of all sorts continue to go out in Durango, and we’re currently looking for those of you who are up for a high action, high adventure Class five overnight trip in the Animas Canyon!!! We have interested customers on July 2-3 and July 9-10, but we need a few more in order to make it a trip.
BOOK WITH MOUNTAIN WATERS TODAY, and let the fun begin!!!
Jun 15th
Check out the videos below, it’s BIG WATER TIME here in Durango. The rivers running brown and the hits out there on the Animas are great! Expect this exciting water level for the next three or four weeks. It’s a great time to book with us, don’t miss out on the fun! Call today!
We’re currently offering trips on all of our rivers, class III-V. Lower Animas town runs are going out hourly!!! The Piedra river continues to tear through the HD mountains at a great water level!!! And we’re currently looking for more guests to come with us on our upcoming July 2-3 Class five Upper Animas trip. Big water class five with a wilderness overnight!!!
Book it up. We’re anxiously awaiting for your call!
Jun 3rd
The Animas River is cranking and so is Mountain Waters. Looks like it’s going to be a great season of rafting – come on out and float with us!
Apr 4th
It’s that time of year again in Durango! The snow in town has come and gone, and now we wait for those warm spring temperatures to reach high into the San Juans and start melting the Animas River watershed. Over the past week and a half, we’ve seen temps in the mid-70′s and for the first time in 2011 the water in our river has gone from a clear trickle to a muddy brown stream, signifying the first signs of snow melt.
Mountain Waters plans to kick off it’s season on the seventh of May with our guide school. These future professional boatmen will be put through a tough week worth of work, learning all principals of river safety, navigation, and etiquette. At the end of the week, we’ll head up to Silverton for this years first Upper Animas descent. We’ll spend three days in the Animas River canyon setting up our wilderness camp and teaching our students the proper execution of overnight wilderness river trips.
Give us a call and book your trip today. It all depends on the weather when you’re running rivers, but the signs indicate that we should be boating in town by mid-May! Keep an eye on our website, we’ll be sure to keep you updated about the upcoming season! We look forward to seeing you!
May 28th
The latest stream gauge reading from the USGS came in at 1:30 this afternoon
(Friday, May 28) at 3,920 cubic feet per second. With the Animas teetering on 4,000 cfs,
everyone’s eyes are big in Durango! She’s running muddy, and, for the locals, when the
river’s color turns to brown, there’s not a better week of the year!
Big water is in the air, the temp has risen to 90 degrees, and all the creeks are running.
Now’s the time to book your trip if you’re up for the BIG whitewater.
You can follow the Animas River stream flow yourself directly from our homepage. Click
on “FUN STUFF, ” then “LINKS,” and choose the reading you’re interested in. The Silverton
reading is taken at the Upper Animas put-in, the Tall Timer Resort reading is near the
bottom end of the Upper, and Durango’s reading is what we’re boating on for our daily
trips. Follow along. Anything over 3,000 cfs in town means the river is big everywhere.
4,000 and rising!
May 21st
May 8th marked the beginning of the 2010 Mountain Waters guide school. Eleven fresh faces showed up Saturday morning eager to learn how to guide these big inflatable water crafts. Throughout the week, the newcomers were trained in whitewater fundamentals including paddle boat guiding, oar boat guiding, flip training, swim practice, and, of course, customer service.
The rookie class recieved instruction from Mountain Water’s guide instructers who have combined for over 65 years of class five experience. The rookie class graduated with honors and got the privalege of coming along on the Upper Animas camp set-up trip. The guide instructors finally got their turn to be on the oars, as they saddled up their boats in Silverton with stern rigs and off they went into Weeminuche Wilderness for two days of class five boating. The crew spent a lay-over day in Needleton setting up the camp, which includes a full commercial outfitting kitchen, three full-sized A-framed sleeping areas, a shower house, bar, horseshoe pits, and easy access to perhaps the San Juan Mountains finest display of scenery…Chicago Basin, home to three 14,000 foot peaks. Nestled along the confluence of Needle Creek and the Animas River, 11 miles from any civilization and only a steam engine train passing by daily, our set-up crew found there was no better place to be.
Words and pictures can’t explain it, this is something you simply need to see for yourself. You can find out more about our Upper Animas Adventure on our home page.
Mountain Waters is also offering a second guide school beginning on June fifth. If you’re interested in getting paid to spend your summer on the water or just simply want to learn how to guide a boat, you can find more information on our “Jobs” page. We’d be more than happy to have you along.
May 21st
Mountain Waters Rafting is up and running for the 2010 season and things in Durango
are starting to look exciting. Cool temperatures throughout Southwest Colorado have
kept stream flows at a steady pace in the Animas River Basin. The Durango town run
currently sits around 2,000 cubic feet per second, which is an awesome level for
some good hits on the 11 mile journey to the south end of town.
However, with the forecast predicting temps up to 80 degrees over the weekend, we
expect a jump in the stream flow early next week. So if you’re looking for a little more
exciting level, the coming weeks are the time and Durango is the place.
Apr 1st
Please check back soon for our latest and greatest blog about rafting in Durango!
