Adventure Bound USA

Alright you scurvy dogs!!! Just got back from an awesome 4-​day trip on Cataract. Big thanks to Darin, Lindsay, and Spike for making it a great trip. You guys worked your tails off.
This was first trip with AB but went with family who had gone on a previous trip with AB and highly recommended it. They were spot on. We had great water on this trip with it running about 40,000 CFS which made the rapids (and in particular the Big Drop (s) a lot of fun). As other people have said things will happen on a rafting trip but what matters is how it’s addressed. We always felt comfortable and can’t emphasize enough how much the guides worked their tails off to help us have an awesome trip.

The guides were very friendly and pleasant on our Desolation Green River Trip. However, they didn’t really extend themselves to inform us, especially the kids, on fun hikes, history, native habitat, or river games. After getting in to camp, they’d typically drink some beer before starting dinner, which was usually pretty late. None of that was a big deal; we’re a self-​sufficient group and entertained ourselves perfectly well.
Another situation: one of the guides forgot to anchor the gear boat which floated down river. Our friends, clients on the trip who kayaked the entire section, had to go and retrieve the boat, bringing it back to shore and averting some issues with the boat floating down a nearby rapid.
Again, all of this could be overlooked, but on the last day, a guide held an expensive camera in her PFD, and when she leaned over the boat, the camera went to the bottom of the river. The $ 600 camera, plus $ 100 memory card, had all our family’s stills and videos — an entire river trip of memories lost. I’m still disappointed how a professional river guide could do such a rooky maneuver: storing a client’s camera unattached to anything in her PFD and forgetting it was there. The guide was nice enough to say she’d send him some compensation, but now two weeks after the trip, he hasn’t heard from her — pretty disappointing.
A note to the owner about these disappointments left us feeling even worse. Tom Kleinschnitz, the President, wrote a bizarre response ‚“On advice of Council I will be simply acknowledging any correspondence from your group.” He wanted us to contact his lawyer if we wanted to use any image of his boats. Well, we didn’t have any pictures at all. Our camera was dropped in the river! He also stated that one of his guides was injured after we departed while unloading boats. He said the injury was due to the «excessively long river days he was subjected to during your expedition.» This was comical since the CFS flow of the Green was 40,000 and we were only on the river five or six hours a day. The injured guide also drove the motor boat, not a very physically taxing job. Frankly, the injury was much more likely due to the excessive drinking which typically started early and not the excessive hours! I noticed beers came out the second they started de-​rigging.
Sadly, I would strongly advise people to avoid this company.