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"How to Become a Whitewater Guide in Washington, Idaho and Montana with Pangaea River Rafting"

Regular Price: $400.00

Preseason Sale Price: $379
(This is a limited time early season price reduction, prices will increase soon!)

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Learn To Run Whitewater... Run, paddle, swim and scout big whitewater so that you feel comfortable no matter what river you run.

Swift Water Rescue Training...
What happens when you flip a raft? You'll learn exactly that and practice saving swimmers, throwing rescue lines and swimming rapids.

Soul Nourishing Lunch...
Recharge your soul with a hot red potato bar and flame seared chicken each day of guide training.

Guide Training, Exactly What You Need!
Don't buy extra gear you don't need. You'll learn exactly what you should bring on every raft trip you paddle so that you're always prepared.

   

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Dates Just Announced for our 2012, 6 day weekend course!

May 19-20 (Saturday and Sunday 9am to 5pm)
May 26-27 (Saturday and Sunday 9am to 5pm)
June 2-3 (Saturday and Sunday 9am to 5pm)
June 3 (Sunday) is bring your friends and family day for only $35 (includes gear and lunch)

Rock Your Boat

During guide training, we recommend you “rock your boat.” You’ll be flipping rafts, saving swimmers, swimming rapids, giving commands and captaining your own boat over an intensive and very fun six day course.

The Clark Fork River, Spokane River or Blackfoot River

The course will be conducted on the Clark Fork River or Blackfoot River in Montana and/or the Spokane River depending on water levels. The access and opportunity on the Clark Fork River is our favorite and unmatched in quality of learning environement anywhere else in our area.

What Does Your Guide Training Weekend Look Like?

Most people arrive Friday night and set up camp for the weekend at our compound on the river. We will be rafting from 9:00AM until 6:00PM Saturday and Sunday. We will be eating lunch on the river.

Gear you will need...

We will provide you with all of the rafting gear you will need for the course: wetsuits, booties, and PFD's.You will need to have the following items: Wool or Polypropylene Base Layer(Top and Bottom) and Socks, warm hat, waterproof windbreaker and pants, water bottle.You will need to have a tent, car, camper, trailer, or some other form of shelter at night.

Become a Whitewater Guide

Whether you become a commercial or private rafting guide, you need to take Pangaea's formal Guide Training Course. Learn what do when your responsible for everyone's safety.. You need to know how to read the river and how to handle never ever's on the river and how to save yourself and your passengers if anything should go wrong.

Pangaea's Guide Training and River Safety Class exceeds Washington State's Whitewater Guide Requirements.

After completing our full 50 hour guide training class, you will receive a certificate of completion and an evaluation that will serve as your legal verification of meeting strict guide training standards!

Bring Your Family and Friends for $25!!!

Also guide your friends and family on the last day! You run the trip just like a professional guide. Invite friends and family to raft with you on the river for only $39 per person includes all the gear and lunch.

*Trips often fill up. Don’t be disappointed, call or click the button below to make sure you don’t “miss the boat.”

*Trips often fill up. Don’t be disappointed, call or click the button below to make sure you don’t “miss the boat.”

The Guide Training Course will Cover the Following:

• fifty hours on a whitewater river
• reading river characteristics including currents, eddies, rapids, and hazards
• methods of scouting and running rapids
• river rescue techniques, including emergency procedures and equipment recovery
• communicating with clients, including paddling and safety instruction.
• paddling strokes and techniques
• rowing strokes and technique
• boat design and boat/river interaction
• swimming rapids
• rescuing swimmers
• risk management
• equipment preparation and boat rigging

Read more about Pangaea's Guide Training Curriculum