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Moab Volunteer Whitewater Guide Training

Posted by on Mar 7, 2014 in Backcountry, Colorado River, Giving, guides and outfitters, Guiding, moab, Outdoor, outdoor adventures, Outdoor Industry, Outdoor recreation, outdoors, Outside, participation, Program, rafting, Rapids, recreation, river rafting, river trips, summer, Teach, training, Utah, volunteer, Volunteering, Water, Whitewater, whitewater rafting, wilderness | Comments Off on Moab Volunteer Whitewater Guide Training

Whitewater Guide Training CANCELED! Splore specializes in getting people outside, and allowing them experience the dignity of risk. This year we have decided to add to this philosophy and give our volunteers the opportunity to partake in a full, intensive guide training so that they too can experience the elation of guiding people with disabilities [...]

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EVOLVE Graduates Tackle the Outdoors with Buff Headwear

Posted by on Jun 25, 2013 in accessibility, opportunities, Outdoor, Outdoor Industry, Outdoor recreation, outdoors, Overcoming, Partner | Comments Off on EVOLVE Graduates Tackle the Outdoors with Buff Headwear

EVOLVE Graduates Tackle the Outdoors with Buff Headwear By: Katie Daroff When I was first asked to write about Buffs and how helpful they are in Splore’s EVOLVE program, a program designed to help minority teens experience leadership training in the outdoors, I was unsure of what a Buff really was, I did not know that [...]

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How You Can Shape Utah’s Future

Posted by on Mar 18, 2013 in community, Difference, disability, Giving, Impact, Love UT Give UT, Organizations, outdoors, support, Utah | Comments Off on How You Can Shape Utah’s Future

What if you could help shape Utah's future on a single day? On March 22, 2013, YOU CAN! What is it? Love UT Give UT will bring together Utahns for 24-hours of unprecedented giving. It’s one extraordinary day to support the organizations that make Utah special. And it’s your chance to make a real impact. What [...]

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Winter Projects for Boaters | Small Organizational Projects

Posted by on Nov 24, 2012 in ability, accessibility, adaptive, opportunities, outdoor adventures, Outdoor recreation, outdoors, Utah, Whitewater, whitewater rafting | Comments Off on Winter Projects for Boaters | Small Organizational Projects

Carabiner Marking: I use nail polish (something every river guide should have in their ammo can) to paint markings on my carabiners so that I can identify them easily during a de-rig. Chose one or two colors that represent you (I am blue/orange) and paint them on the long side of the biner. Make it [...]

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Sharing a Love of the Outdoors

Posted by on Feb 15, 2012 in abilities, accessibility, experience, moab, outdoors, participation, recreation, summer, training, volunteer, whitewater rafting | Comments Off on Sharing a Love of the Outdoors

I first started hearing about SPLORE when I was very young. Martha Ham was one of my mentors on a women's river trip that I take with about 20 women per year. She has taught me so much about myself, what I would like to do, and how I began volunteering with SPLORE when I [...]

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