Get to Know KODI's Raft Guides
We asked our raft guides a few fun questions so you would have a chance to know them a little better.
- Where was your first raft trip?
- What's your favorite river/rapid to paddle?
- What do you love most about being a raft guide?
- What do you do during the winter?
- Where's your favorite place to camp or play in Colorado?
- What was the biggest or most challenging river you've ever paddled?
Check out their answers below.
Mitch Hall
- My first-time rafting was day one of training with KODI two years ago.
- The numbers is still my favorite section of river. Every year I learn more about this technical section.
- The whitewater community is a tight-knit group that takes care of each other.
- In the winter I am a ski patroller at Eldora Mountain. I typically ski about seven days a week.
- Rocky Mountain National Park is my favorite place in Colorado. It's so big!
- The upper Gauley river is the hardest river I have ever been on. It's a tradition of mine every September.
Ben Darby
- Royal Gorge
- Tunnel Shoot on the middle fork of the American
- Being in Nature
- Plow Snow
- Buena Vista
- Yuba class 5 in California
Jay Chambers
- 1989 in Colorado on the way to Philmont Scout Ranch for a two-week backpacking trip, we stopped in Buena Vista and rafted Browns Canyon
- Being out on the water, enjoying the outdoors and introducing new people to the experience.
- Ski and snowboard instructor at Beaver Creek.
- Anywhere, really. We live in an amazingly beautiful part of the country.
- A tossup between the Grand Canyon and the Tully River in Queensland, Australia during flood season.
Dani Daugherty
- The Lehigh River in the Poconos in Pennsylvania (pretty mild comparing to what I do now lol)
- The Colorado River in the Grand Canyon
- Sharing with other people my love for the place I live in and the things I love to do on a daily basis
- Coach /teach snowboarding around Summit County & run an online CBD Oil Business
- Buena Vista, Colorado :)
- The Upper Gauley in West Virginia
