Re: [Paddlewise] Denver area flatwater (river or lake) kayak opportunities

Kenny Sturgeon wrote:
>I am looking for a relatively easy 1 day trip in the Denver area for some
>non-paddlers, and a good outfitter to go with it- I would prefer double sea
>kayaks- but canoes would work. Any ideas?

Here are several sources of info:

1) Try Renaissance Adventure Guides (http://www.raguides.com/). 
While these folks don't list any Colorado-based trips on their web 
site, they are based in Golden, CO (just outside of Denver).  They do 
list sea kayak clinics on Chatfield Reservoir 
(http://www.parks.state.co.us/chatfield/index.asp)

2) There are several paddling clubs that run trips and have 
information on paddling locations in the Front Range area: Rocky 
Mountain Sea Kayak Club (http://www.rmskc.org/), Rocky Mountain Canoe 
Club (http://www.rockymountaincanoeclub.org/), and the Poudre 
Paddlers (http://www.poudrepaddlers.org/).  The RMSKC website has a 
forum where you could post a request for information 
(http://www.rmskc.org/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl)

3) Several of the local paddle sport shops cater to the sea 
kayaking/canoeing crowd: Canoe Colorado 
(http://www.canoecolorado.com/), Confluence Kayaks 
(http://www.confluencekayaks.com/), The Mountain Shop 
(http://www.themountainshop.com/), Boulder Outdoor Center 
(http://www.boc123.com), and Colorado Kayak 
(http://www.coloradokayak.com/).  I know that Eric Nye 
(eric_at_canoecolorado.com) runs multi-day sea kayak trips and provides 
lessons.  Several of these shops rent sea kayaks and/or canoes.

4) Subscribe and then post your question to the Colorado Paddling 
Resource mailing list 
(http://www.dotzen.org/paddler/cpr/cpr-mail.html)

Brian Curtiss
RMSKC

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