My wife and I planned a Graduation Trip for our daughter to come back to Grants Pass for a week. My wife and I are from Grants Pass and our kids really don’t know much about the area, except through us. None of our kids had ever floated the Rogue, and we decided to do this trip through OTT. While it would be considered an expensive way to raft the Rogue, truly with a big family (6 people), this is the ONLY way you want to do this trip. Our guide, Chris Shields was truly a professional, and instantly part of our family. Everything on our trip felt personal and brought feelings of our childhood. We got to OTT at 7:45 in the morning, and because of the temperature, we had the option to use a wetsuit. Additionally, in the morning session, you will be in your own kayak and if this is your first trip ever in a kayak, you still will feel immediately safe and sound. We put in at Hog’s Creek and float to Galice for the morning session. At this time, you put out and go back to OTT for a BBQ lunch, hamburgers, potato salad, chips drinks.
The afternoon session, you put in before Nugget Falls in Gold Hill and do some fast big water through Tilomikh Falls. Through this part of the trip, you are in a large team raft, traversing and paddling as a team.
After this quick two hours, you put out past Tilomikh Falls and go back to OTT.
The staff is amazing. Chris Shields is a hilarious guide and is exactly the kind of person you want on this day long trip of laughs, memories and outright beauty. We saw a bald eagle, plenty of other wildlife and now I have four children that feel comfortable enough to come back and raft more and want more challenges.
OTT, Aloha and Mahalo! You gave this displaced Grants Pass family in Honolulu exactly what we wanted....a day of amazing memories.