River Currents Blog

River Currents is a blog open to many voices that have had a connection with the river and our trips. You’ll hear the voice of veteran river-runner and Holiday founder Dee Holladay, the voice of guides whose lives have been shaped by their time on the river, and guests who bring the perspectives that remind us why we’re still making these trips happen 45 plus years later. You’ll also hear the voice of and stories through our regular blog contributors, Peta Owens-Liston and Julie Trevelyan.

Category Archives: Articles

Park City Magazine, Summer/Fall 2011

A family of four finds an elusive dimension beyond the Gates of Lodore.

Yoga Journal, June 2011

Women’s rafting trips that incorporate yoga into the journey down the Green and Yampa rivers.

Wasatch Woman, July 2010

Holiday River Guide Jessica Durham Gardner, “Water Goddess,” on her philosophy and love of the river.

Shape Magazine, June 1998

Holiday River Expedition’s River Retreat combines big rapids with yoga, meditation and soothing spa treatments. By Michele Meyer

Spirit Magazine, February 1998

The trip promised a peaceful yoga experience entwined with the adventure of river rafting. It delivered these – along with beautiful views, new friendships, geological knowledge, and a bit of chocolate – turning the participants into gnarly river women!

Sunset, April 1996

Green River Reunion

After 25 years, a Sunset writer and his father run Utah’s family-friendly river again. But this time there’s a new generation along.

By Ben Marks

Bike Magazine Nov/Dec 1995

We are hurtling down a road through time. Clinging tightly to my bike as it surges and bucks like a runaway horse fleeing a cloud of bees into the very heart of Canyonlands National Park.

New Choices Magazine Feb 1994

Years ago I ran a river my first and, until recently, my last. What I remember most about that event is the heart-stopping, numbing terror that took over my mind, my body and my senses as the flimsy rubber raft careened through water swollen by spring runoff and undammed by man or nature.

CondeNast Traveler, August 1992

You reach your excitement threshold at Satan’s Gut: A river man’s top five.

Sports Illustrated July 1989

To true white-water people, we clearly qualify as “dudes,” “turkeys” or, least disparagingly, “river rookies.” But Dee Holladay, who is paddling us down a 58-mile stretch of the Colorado River through Westwater Canyon and Professor Valley on what is perhaps his 200th trip with tourists, is too polite—or too much the business man—for name-calling.