California and Oregon Rafting

Kokopelli River Guides is proud to offer a special kind of river trip, our first class Wine and Wellness river rafting vacation on northern California’s Lower Klamath River. Choose from a 2-5 day tour featuring wine tasting from southern Oregon wineries, yoga, massage, and organic meals. Our health education guru will teach you about how to live healthy and how to stay that way. Relax and feel how river life is meant to be.

This rafting trip is the perfect combination for those who just need to get away, girlfriend getaways, and corporate retreats. The Lower Klamath River is one of our favorite rafting and inflatable kayaking trips. Join us and you’ll see why. You will return to the “real world” relaxed with a new sense of energy and a newfound appreciation for your own wellness and the health of others.

Walt Blackadar is best known for his solo trip through Turnback Canyon on the Alsek River in Northern British Columbia. This trip (that few have done since) was even mentioned in a 1972 article of Sports Illustrated. He did it in 1971 when he was 49 years old and had only been kayaking for four years.

Walt was a physician in Salmon, Idaho and a boating hero even though some people thought of him as reckless. He was also known for the first descent of Devil’s Canyon on the Susitna River in Alaska. One of his most interesting stories is that he was paddling on the Snake River at the bottom of Hell’s Canyon when Evel Knievel attempted to jump across it. After Evel Knievel didn’t make the jump, Walt paddled over to him, assisted him, rode with him on the helicopter, and even stood next to him when he met the press.

Learn more about the other 2007 inductees including kayaker, author, and cartoonist William Neely.