Application. Sometimes the river just has her way.
New rafting guides must meet Colorado’s state whitewater rafting guiding standards before they’re allowed to guide trips commercially. Whitewater Guide training is physically and mentally demanding. All trainees must have current Basic First Aid and CPR or higher certification previous to the start of training.
If you love the water, meeting new people, getting your daily dose of adrenaline, and can handle responsibility, then becoming a whitewater rafting guide may be the right career, or part time job, path for you. After evaluating your application, we will contact prime candidates and ask that you call to conduct a phone interview.
I am a chemist at Schering-Plough Consumer Health Care. While there are some rivers like that (the Zambezi in Africa, the Gauley in West Virginia, parts of the Colorado, among others), most rivers are fairly manageable.
It made me realize just how much I wanted to be a part of Wilderness Aware. If you’re close to a rafting river, then get up, go out there, and see what it takes. Even if I didn’t have trips one day, I would head out to the river anyway to hang out, kayak, or pick up trips if another guide wanted to give one away or if we had walk-ins.
Training is intense, we take 2+ trips each Saturday and 2+ more each Sunday, every weekend for 10-12 weeks, in addition to swift water rescue training, rope tying, and other job specific skills such as loading/unloading boats on the bus. As far as the application process though, it’s pretty all-inclusive. Being a raft guide is a physically demanding job. Weekends, if doing two Upper/Middle trips in one day, it was more like 8:00 p.m., but that still left the evening wide open. That’s when I knew.Ha.
The river runs Thursday through Monday (the rafting weekend is Tuesday and Wednesday). Now that I work full time, I only raft on weekends, so during the busy season (July – September), I’m basically working seven days a week every week, with few exceptions.
As a prospective guide, I would urge you to TRY IT! I’ve given the “conservative” ride, where we just ride straight through, no stunts; I’ve also flipped my raft four times in one 2-hour trip. Many “career” guides (I guess you could say) will move to a ski resort and give ski lessons every year, some find odd jobs to do, such as handiwork, personal training, etc. Please pass down my appreciation to Joe and Isaiah if you could.
I’m telling you, it is the best, most enjoyable job you will ever have.It’s as simple as going to any of the rafting companies and filling out an application and waiver. And honestly, I may go that route eventually. It’s a regularly guided trip, but we have no rules, no restrictions. Thank you for the opportunity and consideration for this job. HOW TO BECOME A WHITEWATER RAFTING GUIDE 1.
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