Hello there, my name is Kamron Wixom and I guided for Western River through the 1990's on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. Between a full time (office job) with Western River, and an active family of four, I still try to get a trip or two down the river each year!
When I was guiding full time for Western, I always felt it a privilege to be working for the best river rafting outfitter with the best rafting trips in the west. All of Western's equipment was top notch, not to mention the j-rig being the best motor rig for a Grand Canyon rafting trip.
Being a Western guide always meant doing something more for the guests than would ordinarily happen while river rafting on the Colorado River. It was a price all of us guides were eager to pay for the chance to show "our canyon" to folks who didn't yet have a clue just how impacted their lives would be by the rivers and canyons we'd come to love.
Now, working as a full time employee in the offices headquartered in Salt Lake City, I have come to see first hand what I suspected all along as a seasonal guide: the company culture of doing the absolute best job you can permeates every level of the company.
The best part about all of it is that it is genuine and not manufactured for "better results". Along with all the tangibles that make Western one of the best rafting outfitters on the planet, I believe Western has the best rafting vacations because of something intangible.
That's my humble opinion of course, but there seems to be plenty of guests and former guides who agree! Join us on our Facebook Fan Page (or post something right here in the blog) and tell us your story!
Looking
for great places for family vacations? There are lots of things for
families to do in Utah. With five National Parks, historic sites
like Temple Square, and geography as diverse as any you'll find,
Utah is indeed one of the best places for...
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If you are interested in river rafting adventure, you will probably
enjoy a book I read recently about the John Wesley Powell
Expedition. Powell and his crew were the first to take boats all
the way through the canyons of the
Green River and
Colorado...
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As
I write this, we await word on whether budget bickering in the U.S.
Government will have an effect on our river trips through the
National Parks. The politics of this potential shutdown are
unfortunate and disappointing to be sure. Hopefully it...
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Western has been
working for some years, in cojunction with the National Park
Service, local universities and other outfitters, to come up with a
more "green" way of propelling the large pontoon rafts down the
Colorado River in Grand Canyon. Western...
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I just got a phone call, in Western River's main offices, from a
guest whose memory was sparked about a
Grand Canyon 7 Day Rafting Triphe'd done in 1966. He stumbled onto our website while doing an
image search in Google and thought he'd give us a...
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One of our Grand Canyon Rafting 6-day guests wrote us with this
very interesting story to tell about a neighbor's gift to her upon
her return home. It was a broken wooden oar. The gift came from
Clare, a woman now in her 90's. Touched by the gesture,...
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There are a lot of logisitcs to a
Grand Canyon
rafting expedition, but Western River has simplified the
logisitics by including a $235 flight from Vegas to your river
rendezvous at Marble Canyon Lodge. Most folks meet us in Las Vegas
and take the...
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With the the first of the
Grand Canyon river trips of the 2010
season successfully reaching its intended ending point (at mile
188) today, I wanted to take a look back at the very first Western
River Expeditions Grand Canyon launch, almost 50 years...
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As you plan your river rafting trip, you may begin to wonder
exactly how a rafting adventure differs from a "regular" vacation.
Whether you are going for a multi-day trip in the
Grand Canyon,
or the
Colorado
River and
Green Rivernear Moab, Utah,...
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Utah adventure begins in the southeast corner of the state in a
great little town called Moab (pronounced "mow" "ab"). Your 4-5-Day
Utah
Green River rafting vacation will take
you through a wilderness area so remote, it was used as a hideout
for...
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If you're currently looking for great family vacations ideas, look
no further than a
family
adventure rafting vacation with Western River
Expeditions. Below are some of my observations of why a
rafting vacation is one of the best family vacations in...
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Something happens on your
first river raft trip
that is difficult to explain.
As strangers you meet at t
he
river’s edge, subconsciously sensing the drift of current downward,
out of sight around the bend, unsure of where the river will take
you. At...
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With the new year, it occurred to me that I needed a new calendar
for my wall. I didn't have a nice one to display, so I thought I'd
make one to display on my computer wallpaper (background). "Well,"
I thought, "doesn't that look nice." (Okay, so...
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Western River Expeditions gets the green
light... Okay, so it’s more of a blue-ish white light, but it’s
also green. Our office headquarters in the foothills of the Wasatch
mountains in Salt Lake City is now doing more to save the planet.
We like to...
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A recent wall post on Western River's Facebook page has given me
pause to reflect back on the original white water rafting trip on
the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon experienced by John
Wesley Powell and his crew in 1869. The facebook...
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