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February Club Meeting
Event: February Club Meeting
Location: Flying Pie Pizza - 7804 SE Stark St, Portland, OR 97215
Website: http://www.flying-pie.com/locations/portland
Date: Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
Schedule:
- 6:00 – 6:30 Social Time with Pizza
- 6:30 - 7:15 Club Business
- 7:15 - 8:15 Presentation
- 8:15 - 8:30 Clean-up
Topic: Logistics of running the Illinois River.
Speaker:
Zachary Collier
Owner/Outfitter
Northwest Rafting Company
Description: Come on down, enjoy pizza, salad and refreshments
Speaker Bio: As a boy, Zach spent his summers working alongside his father at Boy Scout camps where he led overnight backpacking, mountain biking, and kayaking trips. This early experience of leadership and the outdoors evolved into a lifelong commitment to stewardship and excellence in the wilderness.
He briefly pursued a career in academia, but his love for whitewater and the outdoors led him to a career in the outdoor travel industry, co-founding NWRC in 2009 and later acquiring ownership of ECHO River Trips in 2015.
Zach is actively involved in the whitewater community, serving as a board member of the America Outdoors Association and as one of the few certified instructors for the International Rafting Federation in the United States. Additionally, he contributes to the Oregon Whitewater Association by leading trips and providing safety training to its members.
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