Dutch Oven Love

Nothing says love like Dutch Oven cooking! Here on the Rogue River, guides love to cook outdoors and along the banks of the Rogue. Open fire cooking, campfire roasting, and all of the delicious smoke-y smells that go along with it.


Dutch Oven cooking has become an art form! There is no end to the possibilities of what can be made at the fire and with some hot coals. Anything from a complete turkey dinner to breakfast omelets to peach cobbler and River Brownies. You are only limited by your imagination and which river to choose!


Are you hungry yet?

Let's Do Lunch!

River lunches are some of the most memorable times of the day. All of the hustle and bustle of everyday life has slipped away into River Time. Suddenly, hunger strikes hard! Don't worry, you will be well fed and well taken care of at O'Brien's!

Discover a wide variety of freshly picked vegetables from the garden at O'Brien's headquarters, fruits ripened on the trees, a fresh strawberry patch ready with sweet, juicy, goodness, and sandwich wraps filled with turkey and basil, or mandarin orange chicken will satisfy the heartiest appetite. If these tasty treats don't take care of the hunger pangs, then the River Brownies or Guide Cookies will surely do the trick. Let's make plans to do lunch soon!

Oregon Wild Flowers

Oregon's state flower is the Oregon Grape. It has the prettiest yellow blossoms,the shiniest green leaves, and the tiniest little grapes you have ever seen. The Oregon Grape grows wild across Oregon and among our favorite places to find this glowing little bush is near boat ramps, along the river bank, and nestled in the madrone, manzanita, and maples. Get out on the wild side to get a glimpse of some great surprises.

Rogue River Rafting

Good to Go with the Gear!

As the whitewater rafting season gets near, we take a good look at our inventory of life jackets. Each jacket is a US Coast Guard approved jacket with a Class III/V rating. They must be in good condition and there are never any holes or tears in our life jackets.

The Oregon State Marine Board also requires an additional safety feature to the life jacket and that is a whistle. The universal distress code, also known as SOS, is three long blows on the whistle. It is Oregon law that every boater has access to a whistle or other sound device. We opted for the whistle.

You can be certain that safety is our number one priority and our 2010 season is good to go with gear!

Oregon Rafting

Sticks

These aren't just any ole kind of sticks! These are 10' Sawyer Oars, crafted right here in Southern Oregon. We are getting ready for our spring training trips and we will get these oars into the water very soon. We have had a healthy dose of spring rain and snow pack in the mountains. Stay tuned for our season opener!

Waterfalls and Blossoms on the Rogue

Spring is beginning to bud and bloom in the Rogue River Valley and deep green forests of the Siskiyou Mountain Range. The Pacific Dogwood tree grows naturally in height to 75 feet and the blooms can be seen scattered in the canopy of the river canyons, near water sources and quite surprisingly near a favorite waterfall. Look for the delicate greenish white blossoms on your next visit to the river.

Osprey Return

The osprey have returned from their wintering over in warm climates and continents to the south of us. The males and females winter over in separate places from one another, but when it is time to return to the nesting grounds, they find their life time mate and nest together again.

The female will spend most of her time on the nest, however, the male osprey is a sentinel guard. The male will perch on a nearby stump, tree, branch, or post to stand in protection and service of the female osprey. As the days get longer, the male will relieve the female osprey of her nesting ritual for a short period of time while she stretches her wings, glides on an air current and returns to the nest within ten minutes.

The male osprey will hunt and deliver the food and help feed the young fledglings once they have hatched. Osprey generally have 2-3 young each spring. It takes both parents to raise them. Righ now, the females are preparing the nest for the eggs. Once she starts to sit on the eggs it will be about 40 days.

Come out and watch the osprey as they begin the timeless ritual of nesting.

Southern Oregon in the Springtime

Southern Oregon in the spring time is action packed! The weather has violent mood swings from clear blue puffy white clouds to raging windstorm blackened skies! The unbelievable transfer of hot, warm, cool, and cold air will take your breath away if the scenery doesn't!
Take a walk, hike, or float on the wild side and get some fresh Oregon air.
Come and see why the osprey return year after year after year to the Rogue Valley to build their nests and raise their young from the tropical winters in Brazil and other warm and balmy places.
Make plans to take in the action with front row seats in a raft, paddle raft or inflatable kayak in the clearest, greenest, bluest river view you could ever hope to never forget!

Remember the unbelievable transfer of hot air? We are now taking reservations!