Idaho Hat Trick

August, 2008

We're normally wary of outfitters billing themselves as the biggest and baddest. But ROW Adventures' new Superlative Idaho trip provides guests with the ultimate travel-yarn trump card. On the weeklong adventure, you'll climb Borah Peak, Idaho's highest; paddle Lake Pend Oreille...

Rivers Gone wild

Outside Magazine July, 2008

The West's desperate water shortage may get a year's reprieve. Last winter's epic snowpack--in some places the biggest since the 1960s--is fueling the best whitewater season since the invention of self-bailing rafts. The timing couldn't be better...

Rip-Roaring Away

N Season Magazine June, 2008

We are two days into a six-day white water rafting adventure on Idaho's Middle Fork of the Salmon, often referred to as The river of No Return (how comforting), and as usual, I am powerless to stop my son from adding another heart-pounding feat to his stash of adventures...

America's Wild & Scenic Rivers

American Profile May, 2008

The sun bursts over the edge of white granite cliffs along the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in central Idaho, filling the V-shaped canyon with rays of morning light that shimmer...

The Stay List - 150 Hotels You'll Love

National Geographic Traveler April, 2008

Sense of place . . . With the cadence of a lullaby, these three words neatly sum up the properties celebrated here. To travel well, we believe, is to soak up authenticity. And where we spend the night is part of the picture...

Trips of the Year 2008

Outside Magazine - Trips of the Year 2008 April, 2008

Peter Grubb, founder of outfitter ROW Adventures, once wandered into a French travel agency to buy a ticket to Morocco and unknowingly ended up with one to Algeria instead. It was a fine mistake...

Algeria Adventure

Reading the Rivers

Sunset Magazine March, 2008

A river runs deep in my memory, as it once ran deep in my life--the Skagit River in Northern Washington. As a boy I lived in a small village right on the Skagit. My bedroom faced the river, maybe 100 yards away...