Overview
ROW Adventures is excited to celebrate our second year of offering our cooking adventure, The Culinary Whitewater Rafting Series in 2010, combining hands-on learning of campfire and Dutch Oven cooking focused on Northwest Regional Fare. Participants will be taught by ROW Adventures' talented guide staff as well as a skilled chef to learn how to prepare gourmet meals in the wilderness. The skills learned can be used in for backyard cooking, on car camping trips, or other outdoor scenarios.
Dutch ovens have long been used in the West. Lewis and Clark, sourdoughs of gold rush days and pioneers on the Oregon Trail all depended on these versatile cooking pots that allow a person to bake just about anything. Participants in our cooking adventure will learn all the tricks of Dutch Oven cooking with a focus on regional Northwest fare such as wild salmon, Pacific oysters, huckleberries, Idaho potatoes, mushrooms, apples and other fresh seasonal fruit, etc.
Meals will be paired with Oregon, Washington and Idaho wines along with tasting notes of each featured wine.
All participants will receive a complimentary Dutch oven and a handsome ROW apron to take home!
Both The New York Times and Every Day with Rachael Ray have featured our culinary whitewater adventures!
Available Activities:
At A Glance
- Trip Duration: 4-6 Days
- Trip Length: 40-105 miles
- Intensity: Easy, Class II or Intermediate, Class III-IV
- Season: June-August
- Minimum Age: 5-7 depending on the river
- Begins in: Various locations, depending on which river trip is chosen
- Ends in: Various locations, depending on which river trip is chosen
- Highlights: Depending on the river you will see a variety of gentle and intermediate rapids, mountain canyon scenery, white sandy beaches, abundant wildlife, great riverside hiking, Native Pictographs and Pioneer homesteads.
Details
Cooking Adventure - Culinary Whitewater
Trips will be offered as follows:
June 17-20 Four-days on northeast Oregon’s Grande Ronde River. A gentle float trip for those not interested in much whitewater. Camps are on forested benches.
July 19-23 Five-days on Idaho’s Salmon River Canyons (River of No Return). A moderate class III whitewater rafting trip featuring camps on huge white sand beaches.
August 23-28 Six-days on Idaho’s legendary Middle Fork of the Salmon. America’s classic wilderness alpine river with moderate class III-IV rapids, hot springs, spectacular scenery, fly fishing, hiking and more.
September 10-14 Five-days on the famous Snake River through Hells Canyon. Carving the deepest river gorge in North America and featuring the best autumn whitewater in the West.
To inquiry about dates, ask questions or book your culinary adventure today call 800-451-6034 or email info@rowadventures.com.
Itinerary
Cooking Adventure - Culinary Whitewater Itinerary
Click on the rivers below to open a detailed PDF itinerary for each river trip. Each day during meals you will expierence the unique culinary aspect of the trip which is not mentioned in the itineraries below.
Middle Fork Salmon
Salmon River Canyons
Snake River - Hells Canyon
Grande Ronde River
Destinations 
