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05/20/2026

Donn Briggs River Runners of the Grand Canyon This is an old video, but us old boatmen like it.

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05/19/2026

JPW Tubes run the Mississippi River Huck Fin Style.

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05/05/2026

Lava Falls at 40.000 CFS!

Thanks to Hatch river Expeditions. They are one of our good customers. and they were the first Customer that JPW ever had.

191 likes, 40 comments. "Lava Falls Rapid during 2023 Experimental High Flow at 40k cfs - 4/28/23 Grand Canyon National Park"

04/11/2026

Here is a short video from CNN that shows the operation, including the stabilisation collar and the rescue raft (Front Porch). The inflatable canopy was not used.

Astronauts from Artemis II safely exited the Orion capsule after splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.READ: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/04...

04/10/2026

Artemis splashdown at 8 pm eastern time. With sea state predicted atless than 1 ft off the coast of San Diego, we may not see the reacue inflatables. Here is an old TV article that shows the res ue team testing them. THESE INFLATABLES ARE MADE BY JPW.

The astronauts will be selected later this year, so four stand-ins are taking place in the training.

03/09/2026

This is a video taken by Drone of Baker's Box on the Upper Animas. This is why it is a mandatory portage. One time we had a customer who repelled into the box to retrieve his kayak. It had a log stuffed into the cockpit. He had to cut it out with a bow saw, and then climb back out with his boat. Not being a Climber, I have difficulty imagining how he did this, but we did fix his Kayak.

Drone footage of the sieve in the middle box of the Upper Animas near Durango, CO. Footage courtesy of Chad Guin.

02/17/2026

Rivers and Oceans had this on their web site. A flip and long swim left of the rock garden in Crystal Rapid. NOTE: There are 2 things that can go wrong in a right run through crystal. What happened here is that he did not have an early enough start or enough momentum to the right. At the top the person with the camera is telling him to row harder at the top. That may have saved him. but entering at the very top of the lateral waves with all the momentum you can muster going right is my best course of action. The trick is not to bounce off of any rocks on the right. Try to miss them. because if you do, you may just bounce right back into those lateral waves that will take you right into the hole. I flipped there once at about that same water level. because I hit a half submerged rock on the right and lost all my momentum. https://youtu.be/DscJXW5zCvs Opinions supplied by Jack Kloepfer.

Grand Canyon Swim Team Motto: "Hit it Sideways..."How not to row into Crystal Rapid on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon at high water...or ever. Flip -...

02/02/2026

I do not know who Mountain time zone is, but they have a very cool flip sequence of one of our big cats, El Tigre, in Crystal in the Grand Canyon. I have shared this before, but it has always been a crowd pleaser. https://www.facebook.com/reel/696856533829997

11/30/2025

The best reason to go rafting with friends and family. Happy Thanks giving.

11/28/2025

PADDLES UP: At JPW, we live vicariously through our customers. This film is a ton of fun for me to watch. We built 2 racing rafts for the Animas Amazons, and these women were a ton of fun to work with on this project. Yes this is a resurrection of an old video. I hope you enjoy it half as much as I do.

"Paddle's Up" is a documentary about the Animas Amazon's, the all female raft racing team from Durango, CO. Big thanks to Jack's Plastic Welding. Filmed by S...