Wow! What a season is behind us…

We still don’t stop, let’s understand each other. But when we stop for a second and look back… We have something to see!

So, let’s remember together everything that we have managed to achieve so far in 2022..

During the year, we tried to bring each member of BOD closer to you. We want all of you all to feel as part of our Rafting Family, and for that to happen, we all need to get to know each other well.

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Sustainability in rafting is a high priority for the IRF. In 2019 we joined the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) Sports for Climate Action initiative as a signatory to the Sports for Climate Action Framework. We know that it is a priority for many of you as well.

To increase your knowledge we are bringing you an opportunity to become more informed about sustainability and rafting.

We invite you to join us for our two part webinar series specifically tailored towards rafting!

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by Chloe Tippett

“THE FORMATION OF THE CALIFORNIA POPPIES”

I GREW UP on the river. My parents met 30 years ago as guides and raised me and my brother as whitewater kids. Today, our family owns a rafting company, Coloma Lotus Whitewater. Growing up I had a vague awareness that raft racing was a thing. One of my mother’s guide school instructors had been a founder of Project RAFT and several of my parents’ rafting friends had been on teams that had competed.

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The training and certification for white waters guides, organized by the Kanjon Rafting Club and with the financial support of UNDP, was successfully completed. Nine participants out of a total 29 received licenses, which will enable them to perform the work of rafting guides according to the rules of the IRF.

They remind that the IRF GTE rafting guide certificate is recognized and accepted in over 50 countries around the world and in many countries it is necessary to register and practice as a whitewater rafting guide.

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