Salt River Guides

River Guides,

Thank you for your interest in guiding on the Salt River for Wilderness Aware Rafting. At this point I am collecting river resumes and email addresses for guides that may be interested in working the 2009 Salt River season. If you are interested in working on the Salt River please email me with a copy of your current river resume, reference letters and your contact information.

As it gets closer to the start of the season I'll have a better idea of what the snowpack and reservations are looking like I'll begin making final hiring decisions. I'll contact interested guides later this winter with a proposed pay scale, as well as updated housing and workload information.

An average Salt season is 70 days lasting from the end of February through the middle of May. As for the amount of work available, I think that you can expect a situation similar to the Gauley in West Virginia. About 80% of the business on the Salt is on weekends so you can anticipate working 3 to 4+ days a week. We will also be heavily marketing our overnight trips to fill in the weekday business.

WA has one of the few shuttle permits available on the Salt, so there may be some fill-in work shuttling private vehicles for those that are interested. Housing at this point will be riverside camping near the put-in with primitive facilities.

I'll be sure to keep you posted as our plans firm up. Please feel free to contact me with any additional questions. Thanks again for your interest and I'll be in touch.

Regards,
Jack Gunckle
jack@inaraft.com
Operations Manager
Wilderness Aware Rafting

• Info for Inexperienced Guide Training Program
• Info for Experienced Rafting Guide
• Application and Interview Registration Form
• Guide's Job Description and Pay Scale
• Salt River Jobs - Experienced Guides Only!

"These boatmen. These jet-set river guides. Bright, handsome, talented young men with many skills, equally adept at river running, cooking, rock climbing, glacier trekking, search and rescue, fishing, hunting, skiing, guitar, harmonica, song. True outdoorsmen, who not only know but also love the out-of-doors. And indeed, how could you know it unless you loved it? As on any commercial river trip, the boatmen-- and often, these days, the boat women-- are the best part of the trip. The most interesting part. The rest is scenery."

Edward Abbey, Down the River