• Published: April 9, 2018

Swiftwater Rescue Training

WRI will be hosting  three more Swiftwater Rescue Classes near Missoula on the Blackfoot River this spring. It’s our home river and our favorite place to teach. Montana River Guides will be hosting the course. Montana River Guides offers Missoula rafting and kayaking trips on the Blackfoot and Clark Fork Rivers. Join us at a discounted price this year.

Montana Swiftwater Rescue Classes

Missoula Swiftwater Rescue Class: April 20-22

Missoula Swiftwater Rescue Class: May 11-13

Missoula Swiftwater Rescue Class: June 8-10

Swiftwater Rescue Training

 

 

 

 

 

Our instructors travel throughout the Americas teaching swift water rescue. Oddly enough, the Blackfoot River remains our favorite place to teach. Our host outfitter, Montana River Guides, provides a great training facility at the Alberton Gorge Ranch rafting headquarters. In addition to hosting WRI swift water rescue classes they offer Blackfoot River rafting and Missoula whitewater raft trips . We love the Blackfoot for many reasons, primarily because it is a beautiful mountain river that holds so many memories and shared experiences for our families, friends and local community. It is a perfect mountain river that creates supports and sustains life along it’s corridor and beyond.  It also sustains WRI and our work as an ideal river to train on.  The Blackfoot’s spring flows provide a combination of powerful swift water along with many features for our students to practice self rescue and rescuing others.  Returning to teach on the same rivers year after year increases our lead instructor’s ability to teach better and better swift water rescue classes.  Knowing what locations provide access and ideal training conditions at a variety of flows allows us to consistantly provide the best swift water rescue training available anywhere .

“Whether you are a river-rookie or an experienced boater, WRI tailors their classes to what you need to learn in a fun and challenging environment. Their scenario based teaching approach creates an electric learning atmosphere where you feel like you are in actual river rescue situations. I would recommend them to anybody!”

Eric Giddens, Owner Kern River Brewing Company/1996 Olympic Kayak Team Member
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