White Water Rafting Media Page
Mission Statement: To
"Oregonize" our guests by offering a truly one-of-a-kind whitewater
experience…with prominence on quality, personal service and unique,
Oregon-based food and drink.
| Company: |
Whitewater Warehouse |
| Address: |
625 NW Starker Ave Corvallis OR 97330 |
| Country: |
USA |
| Phone: |
541.758.3150 800.214.0579 |
| Blog: |
www.whitewaterraftingblog.com |
| Website: |
www.whitewaterwarehouse.com
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| Email: |
fun@whitewaterwarehouse.com |
| Reservations: |
800.214.0579 |
| Owners: |
Bob Meister & Joy Henkle |
| Media Contact: |
Joy Henkle |
| Contact Phone: |
541.758.3150 |
| Facebook: |
Facebook/WhiteWaterWarehouse |
| Twitter: |
Twitter/OregonRivers |
| YouTube: |
YouTube/OregonRivers |
| Flickr: |
Flickr/OregonRivers |
| Unique company positions: |
--Owned by the same individual, Bob Meister for 27 years
--Many of the company's guides have been with WWW for all of
those 27 years
--An Oregon-based company that focuses on unique NW food &
wine products & gourmet wine/food trips
--All-inclusive trips (no additional fees or taxes)
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Articles Available for Re-print:
Oregon Rafting: The Whitewater
Gourmet
Generally, one does not equate
whitewater rafting trips with excellent food. The fun of riding the
rapids takes precedence over culinary taste treats. Typically, a
rafting lunch consists of balancing a sandwich, bag of chips, and
store-bought cookies on your lap as you teeter precariously on an
uneven rock. And, more often than not, some of that lunch ends up
as ant food on the sandy shoreline.
One Oregon whitewater rafting company has been quietly working
over the last decade to change the way their customer's eat while
on the river. To do that, the company began by buying fruits and
produce in season-from local farmers. The thought was that local
farmers are wonderful resources. By dealing directly with these
farmers, the company came into personal contact with the people who
actually grew the foods their clients consumed. Clients started
noticing a marked difference in the freshness and uniqueness of the
food. Vine-ripened tomatoes, freshly-picked blueberries,
juice-dripping peaches, were all often picked by local farmers just
a day or two before clients enjoyed them riverside. [email fun@whitewaterwarehouse.com
for the complete article: 672 total word count]
Fuel Free Vacations Explode in Popularity
With summer quickly approaching, the lure to discover and get
away is foremost on most family's minds. But with soaring gas
prices, the vacation temptation to travel to far away destinations
may be on the skids for many travelers. Seasoned tourism
professionals expect an explosion in vacations this summer where
vacationers spend less time behind the wheel and more time enjoying
the great outdoors. Oregon known as a "green friendly" state,
offers its residents and residents from its border states, myriad
outdoor travel opportunities that don't require any, or at least
very little, petrol. [email fun@whitewaterwarehouse.com
for the complete article: 524 total word count]
Oregon's Rogue River Celebrates 40
Years of Protection
"It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States
that certain selected rivers of the Nation, with their immediate
environments, possess outstandingly remarkable scenic,
recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural, or
other similar values, shall be preserved in free flowing condition,
and that they and their immediate environments shall be protected
for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future
generations."
-- Wild and Scenic Rivers
Act
American attitudes toward wilderness underwent an important
change over the course of the twentieth century. In the 1930s and
1940s, Aldo Leopold, Robert Marshall, and other well-known
conservationists began to argue that not only were undeveloped
areas of high ecological value, they were also of high social value
since they provided an outlet for increasingly urbanized
populations to renew their relationship with nature. [email fun@whitewaterwarehouse.com
for the complete article: 684 total word count]
Hiking Oregon's Rogue River Trail
The Trail Less Traveled
Imagine a guided hiking trip through one of the most
biologically diverse mountain ranges in the United States.
Scientists have discovered that only the Great Smokey Mountains
rival the Siskiyou Mountains in plant diversity. The old and
complex geology, the global position and transverse orientation of
the Siskiyou Mountain Range, which connects the Northwest's Cascade
and Coast Ranges, are responsible for creating myriad species. .
[email fun@whitewaterwarehouse.com
for the complete article: 1376 total word count]
Press Coverage:
USA Today Travel, June 24, 2010, featured
outfitter
San Francisco Chronicle's On-line Newspaper, SFGATE: May
2010
1859 Magazine: Fall 2009
Northwest Travel: March/April 2009
Top Travel Articles: February 2009
Oxygen Magazine: July 2008
Backpacker Magazine: June 2008 (page 35)
Ezine Articles: January, February, March, April
2008
GoArticles.com: January, March 2008
San Francisco Chronicle (March 18,
2007)
Corvallis Gazette Times (January 31,
2005)
Statesman Journal (April 27, 2004; June 2, 2004; July
12, 2004; February 14, 2005)
SmartMoney Magazine (August 2004)
TravelOregon Magazine (Spring/Summer 2004)
Associated Oregon Industries, Business Viewpoint
(November/December 2004)
Sunset Magazine (July 2003)
Canoe & Kayak Magazine (March 2003)
Brand Oregon Website (Featured Oregon
Company)
Georgia Canoeing Association, Inc
(September 1999)
Oregonian (June 1997)
Ruralite Magazine (September 1995)