Welcome to the website of the Northwest Whitewater Association. We are a whitewater rafting club based in Spokane, Washington. Our goal is to promote whitewater boating, safety, and conservation. We've been around since 1989 helping unite river runners across the region.
Northwest Whitewater Association members are private recreational boaters that share a common interest in floating the great rivers of the Inland Pacific Northwest. JOIN US! Your 25 bucks annual dues gets you involved in floats and events on and for the local rivers, prizes and entertainment galore, and of course our entertaining and informative newsletter, The NWA News!
Go ahead...click here to pay your 2013 dues.
NWA meetings are generally held every 1st Wednesday of the month at the world famous Jack & Dan's Bar and Grille – voted one of America's Top-10 sports bars by Sports Illustrated. J & D's is at the corner of Hamlton and Sharp in Spokane.
Join our NWA Yahoo Users Group: This is a great way to keep in touch with our membership and other boaters. Learn about events and trips. Post your own trip info for members. To become a member send us an E-mail and we'll get you invited.
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Our April NWA meeting features
Marc Cramer’s creature craft decent of the Stikine River
Don’t miss his video and program.
The Grand Canyon of the Stikine River in northern British Columbia is one of the greatest whitewater runs in the world.
Hidden away in the Canadian wilderness, it has everything a boater could ever want. While it is impossible to say that something is the hardest, over the last 30 years and a total of 28 attempts, the Stikine has proved itself to be one of the most challenging runs anybody has ever found on this planet.
Marc Cramer, a noted local extreme rafter, recently ran this remarkable remote river in one of those crazy Creature Crafts.
Marc’s taken dozens of hours of footage and gotten down to a little over 30 minutes and will share it April 3 at 7 p.m. at Jack & Dan’s.
spokanerafterguy@comcast.net
or 509-220-8018
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From the Rich Landers and the Spokesman Review (March 3, 2013)
Boosting odds for river permits
The Forest Service is looking for ways to ease the pain of rafters who have a history of rotten luck when it comes to drawing coveted permits for the Selway and Middle Fork of the Salmon rivers.
The Salmon-Challis National Forest is surveying rafters to get their opinions on a weighted lottery roughly similar to what is used in many states for hunting permits.
The goal is to give unsuccessful participants increasingly better odds in permit lotteries for the two rivers for each year they fail to be drawn for coveted group permits in the busy summer season.
In the recently completed lottery, 9,847 people applied for 387 permits on the Middle Fork — drawing odds of 1-in-25. For the Selway, 2,933 applied for 62 permits for odds of 1-in-47.
Comment by March 15. Info: http://1.usa.gov/12m9d90.
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Lunch break on the Selway, 2008.
Larry Johnson picks way through 'Ladle' on the Selway, 2008. |
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Order your NWA straps |
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Visit our friends at NRS. |
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NWA members receive a discount at River Dance Lodge. |
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Visit our friends at Mtn. Gear |
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The Spokane River Forum serves as a clearinghouse and information exchange for all things Spokane River: Visit them at: www.spokaneriver.net |
Are you part of our NWA Yahoo Group? |
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If you are STILL not a part of our NWA Yahoo Group you should sign up as most of our club communication is distributed via this e-mail group. Plus it allow members to communicate with one another regarding floats, and other activities. Yahoo does require you to want to be part of the group so you need an invite from the administrator. If you are not signed up and want to send an e-mail to : spokanerafterguy@comcast.net. |
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