Gear-geeks rejoice! Here’s your chance to test out the latest and greatest rafts, inflatable kayaks or catarafts from all the leading manufacturers. Please contact the vendors below directly, prior to the festival, if you would like to guarantee access to a specific type of boat on a specific day and time.
Rafts and Frames Available to Try Out
Gorillaz Grilled Cheese
Riverworx
Manufacturing frames and other high quality river equipment.
Stone Circle Cider
A Proper Cider
At Stone Circle Cider, we love everything about cider—its simplicity, its tradition, its drinkability and, most of all, the diverse array of complex and beautiful flavors it affords those that get their hands on the best stuff. In pursuit of this passion, we are thrilled to produce a line of ciders that incorporates all of these aspects in the way it has been made in Southwest England for over a thousand years…on the farm. We operate on our family farm, a beautiful property about 25 miles outside of Portland in Estacada, Oregon.
Carlos Birrieria
At Carlos Birriería we have a series of culinary proposals such as birria tacos, always accompanied with its rich consommé, quesabirrias, mulitas, quesagrandes, burritos, and even birria ramen, and for those who follow a ketogenic diet, we also have the “keto taco”, that it is meat wrapped in fried cheese.
Oregon Paddle Sports
We are a premium kayak, canoe, stand up paddle board, rafting, and river supply store. We have been open for retail in Eugene Oregon since 2010 and have been manufacturing boating accessories right here in Eugene under the company Whitewater Designs for close to 30 years! On top of our retail store, we also offer rentals, repair services, and lessons as well as events. We are proud to do our very best every day to produce the finest quality products, and provide the best possible experience and advice to our customers.
Maravia
Making dreamboats come true.
Sawyer
Sawyer offers a full line of modern and traditional products for oarsmen, canoeists, kayakers, surfers and paddlers of all genres, delivered into your hands to provide unsurpassed function, performance and beauty. We design and handcraft every product in Talent, Oregon, USA, ensuring everything we make is from the highest quality materials with careful attention to detail. We take pride in our employees, stewardship of the environment and our country. In return, you have the assurance of knowing the product you receive from us is genuine, made in America and cannot be replicated. Sawyer products are designed by paddlers, oarsmen and surfers alike to fully meet your performance needs. Pick one up today and experience “The Feel of Water!”
Go Light Outdoors
Your Source for Quality Lightweight Whitewater Equipment – including our “International Travel” cataraft packages designed to be transported on commercial airlines to worldwide destinations. We also offer one of the lightest, best handling, high-kick catarafts on the market that weighs in as little 40 pounds for the set of tubes. We are a dealer for Jack’s Plastic Welding and Sotar. Accessories include full break-down aluminum frames, custom mesh bags, and custom travel bags for tubes and frames.
Ilusive Outdoor Goods
Outddor apparel and accessories born in Sandy, Oregon
Sotar
ALL SOTAR INFLATABLES ARE CUSTOM DESIGNED AND MANUFACTURED ONE AT A TIME. NO OTHER INFLATABLES ARE MADE WITH SUCH PERSONAL CARE AND ATTENTION. YOU ARE A NAME, NOT A NUMBER; EACH EMPLOYEE KNOWS YOUR NAME AND STANDS BEHIND THEIR WORKMANSHIP.
Recretec
Simply put, we strive to build the best raft and cataraft frames on the market. What does that mean? It means that even though we’ve been doing this since 1972, there is no perfect frame. We’re constantly trying to improve a time tested product, which is not easy. The only way we can do that is to not only have passion for the outdoors where our products live, we also have to be excited everyday about fabrication and listen to our customers. Through thousands of hours of real world feedback and in house R&D, we believe we have succeeded in offering the most versatile range of adventure rafting products available today.
Oregon River Gear
Purpose built products for your water bound adventures.
DRL River Gypsies
Located in Albany, Oregon
Showroom available by appointment only.
Glitter Sticks
Custom finished oars by Glitter Sticks
AIRE Inflatables
Alpacka Raft
Kokopelli
Since 2012 Kokopelli Outdoor Inc. has designed and manufactured award winning packrafts, inflatable kayaks and stand-up paddle boards that are ruggedly designed to last and purposefully built for ultimate portability and packability. Kokopelli products are sold around the world to avid paddlers, campers, hikers, overland and van life enthusiasts, bikers, climbers, anglers and hunters with the purpose of simplifying and elevating the outdoor experience.
Next Adventure
Deek and Bryan really are just “two local guys” who have put their hearts and souls into building a small business that allows them to share their love of the outdoors and support their own outdoor adventures with family and friends. This simple mission has continued to inspire Deek and Bryan, and their staff at Next Adventure for more than 20 years.
Class V Adventure Gear
Be sure and check in with Jesse of Class V Adventure Gear in the festival vendors area.
Clackamas River Outfitters
Your source for paddle sports rentals, tours, and instruction on the Wild & Scenic Clackamas River. We offer paddleboard, kayak, paddle, and life jacket rentals at our on-water locations inside Milo McIver State Park and Timber Park. Stop by our shop in downtown Estacada!
More Information You Need to Know
You definitely need Class III or IV skills to demo, depending on the section of river you choose to test run and the river flows. A limited number of PFDs and helmets may be available, but it is recommended that you bring your own as both will be required to demo any boat. It is also recommended that you have a drysuit, wetsuit or splash gear if you plan to be on the water.
You will need to provide your driver’s license or credit card as a deposit and be ready to sign a liability release waiver. If possible, the vendors will provide shuttles. As a courtesy to all participants, please return the demo boat as soon as you complete your run.