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Mark Zoller
Mark has 28 years of professional experience all with Zoller's on the Klickitat and White Salmon and Snake Rivers. President of Zoller's Outdoor Odysseys. Favorite places to be... with the family. Mark is looking forward to being a grandpa. |
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Richard Schneider aka “Rooster"
Rooster spends half of the year in Mexico enjoying the sunshine and operating his motorcycle tour business Sierra Madre Motorcycle Adventures, www.smmoto.com, then its back to his home between the White Salmon and Klickitat Rivers for a summer of delighting guests with his river wisdom. Rooster has been guiding Zoller rafts for a whopping 23 years |
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Russ Cole Sr.
Now in his 21st season of professional whitewater guiding with Zoller’s on the Klickitat, White Salmon, and Snake Rivers. Russ guides side by side with his wife Joetta, son Russ Jr. and Daughter in-law Angie. In his spare time, Russ is the owner of Allied Sign co. |
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Marq Box
Marq has 21 years of professional experience all with Zoller's on the Klickitat and White Salmon and Snake Rivers. Marq directs our Snake River operation and has hiked and climbed every peak in Hell’s Canyon. On the side Marq acts as the CEO of Wilson Enterprises. Marq looks forward to becoming a grandpa. |
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Andy Curry
Andy an 19 year veteran of professional guiding, four with Zoller's on the Klickitat and White Salmon Rivers. During the off season Andy is an educator with Horizon Christian School. Ask Andy “who do you love” and he will respond… “I love Jesus, and he loves me too”. We also love Andy. |
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Joetta Cole
Joetta has 16 years of professional experience all with Zoller's on the Klickitat and White Salmon and Snake Rivers. Co-founder and owner of Allied sign. The only grandmother river guide on the White Salmon River. Joetta has her grand daughter in “pre-guide” training and looks forward raising up yet another great river guide. |
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Taylor Lindseth
Taylor has 16 years of professional experience all with Zoller’s on the White Salmon and Klickitat Rivers. Congratulate Taylor this year… he became a daddy! |
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Shawn Lonon
Shawn has 15 years of professional experience, 7 with Zoller's on the Klickitat and White Salmon Rivers. As a top notch chef, Shawn can make your mouth water… As a top notch whitewater professional, he can water the rest of your body. |
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Ben Koefed
Ben has 12 years of professional experience, 9 with Zoller's on the Klickitat and White Salmon Rivers. Hard core, 12 month a year guide, Ben lives for boating. |
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Ben Box
Ben has 10 years of professional experience all with Zoller's on the Klickitat and White Salmon Rivers. Pastor for 300 screaming Jr. high students at Crossroads church, Vancouver. |
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Morgan Colburn
Morgan has 10 years of professional experience all with Zoller's on the Klickitat and White Salmon Rivers. Youth pastor for Mt. Adams Baptist church, local basketball and track coach, and not to shabby with a fly rod. Morgan hates it when we tell people that he was the NCCAA National championship team MVP power forward in 1989. |
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Casey Box
Casey has 8 years of professional experience, all with Zoller's on the Klickitat and White Salmon Rivers. After cramming four years worth of college into seven years Casey became bold enough to ask Mark Zoller, company owner, if he could marry Mark’s daughter. Local police and the FBI are still searching for clues in the sudden disappearance of Casey. Legal counsel for Mark Zoller stands firm that the idea of Casey marrying Mark’s daughter had anything to do with his disappearance. |
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Mark “Frenchie” Lasage
Mark has 5 years of professional experience all with Zoller’s on the White Salmon, Klickitat & Snake Rivers. Lab technician, ski instructor, Medical Officer for the Husum FD and baseball coach for the mighty Trout Lake Mustangs, Mark can do it all. He once sailed around the world just so he could make new friends. Mark holds a record for running 148 professional trips down the White Salmon River in one season. Special congratulations to Mark and his wife Terri who became grandparents this year. |
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Russ Cole Jr
Jr. is the son of Russ and Joetta Cole (see above) and a 6 year professional of the White Salmon, Klickitat and Snake Rivers. Jr. held a record with Zoller’s for running 143 trips in a single season in 2005. He intends to regain the crown. In 2007 Zoller’s acquired a new rookie river guide, Angela Duke. Five months later Jr. acquired Angie as his bride. Jr… you are one lucky boy! |
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Meghan Jenkins
Megan is a 5 year whitewater professional, 4 years with Zoller’s on the White Salmon River. A physical therapist by trade Meg lives for the weekend whitewater. Megan was voted the first and only “rookie of the year” in 2005. Last fall Meg played to role of “Frenchie” in the musical “Grease”. Just take a look at her picture and imagine her with pink hair! Go “Pink Ladies”! |
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Rachel "Zoller" Box
Rachel is a 5 year professional on the White Salmon, Klickitat & Snake Rivers. In 2004, Rachel became the youngest licensed guide in the State of Washington on her 18th birthday and celebrated by guiding on the White Salmon River side by side with her father Mark, and grandfather (company founder) Phil. In 2006 Rachel mysteriously disappeared after Casey Box asked about marriage. Some believe she is in hiding, some believe her father has hidden her. |
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Zachary Zoller
Congratulations! August 2nd 2006, Zach became the youngest licensed guide in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Splitting his time attending the University of the Nations Koona, Hawaii, and summers at home with the family rafting biz, Zach claims that with his current living situation he is looking at having a great tan for the next 4 years. |
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Kabe Grant
He’s fighting fires and saving lives as a Fire Fighter / Paramedic for Hood River, Oregon but on those four days off a week, he is a “Whitewater Ranger… Fears No Danger”. With 7 years of professional guiding, Kabe is entering his second season with Zoller’s. |
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John Campbell
Sometimes the best way to keep a great guide is to make sure they continue their education… so they have more summers to work. So, after John finished becoming an architect we all encouraged him to go into the medical field. With 6 years of professional guiding under his belt, we may just have him around long enough to earn a few more degrees. Hurrah for post graduate school. |
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Eric Schmid
Eric is starting his 3rd season as a professional guide. He has become addicted to the Snake River and Hell’s Canyon. Eric claims that all he needs to do to survive as a rafting guide with no other jobs is to get his two daughters through college. Good luck with that, Eric. |
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YoTom (Tommy) Aviv
A graduate of MIT and by far the smartest river guide in the valley, Tommy can not only read whitewater, he can tell you mathematically why it is there. Now a four year professional of the river, Tommy uses his “river time” to clear his head after a hard day of deep thinking and solving technical mysteries. We may not get to see Tommy this season as he is visiting family in Israel and may be having to much fun to return this summer. We will miss him and look forward to his return home. |
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Sean Woody
Every now and then a youngster comes along who has been running rivers with their parents and gaining professional skills without knowing it. Woody is just that kind of guy. After many family whitewater vacations on great rivers such as the Middle Fork of the Salmon and the Rogue, Woody came looking for some summer work in 2006. We are glad to say that he will be returning for his second season as a professional guide this summer. |
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Shane Wood
I’ve known Shane for several years as fellow river guide for Wildwater River Tours out of Northern Washington. A true veteran and professional all the way around, Shane would compliment any company he chose to work for. After 8 years with Wildwater, Shane moved down here to the southern end of the state and we did not hesitate to invite him to join the most experienced river team in the region. Now our team is all that more experienced. Welcome! |
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Angie "Duke" Cole
What to do with the 15 year old neighbor kid who begs… take me rafting, take me rafting. Well, you take them rafting and train them to become a guide. Angie comes from a family who knows adventure in the outdoors and had made sure Angie got her fill of rafting on the White Salmon with no less than 20 trips over the years. Angie’s first year of guiding was in 2007 where she found she could guide and also found a husband! Congratulation to Russ Jr. You are a lucky boy! |
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Zak StClair
The summer of 2006 Zak arrived as a guest and quickly asked how he could become a guide. After a month of training in the fall of 06, Zak went home to West Virginia, sold his restaurant and home, then headed out west with his wife Yonah. |
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J.D. Henderson
After completing his degree in marketing, J.D. did what every proud parent would want. Bought a camper and started traveling the U.S. and working as a whitewater and snowmobile guide. J.D. has 4 years of professional experience and started guiding Zoller rafts in 2007. |
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Matt Farmer
Matt lives for being in the outdoors. As the leader of many outdoor recreation programs in our community, Matt was a perfect fit for guiding rafts on the White Salmon River in 2007. |
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Sarah Moore
Sarah showed up with enthusiasm and a smile in 2007 for her first year of guiding. She’s a raft full of fun for everyone and we can’t wait for her to start her second season in 2008. |
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Luke Lambert
Rookie Alert! Luke has been a family friend for years and it only seems natural that he becomes a river guide. After all, two of his brothers were Zoller river guides a few years back (David & Seth). Luke and Zach hang out together in Hawaii where they are enrolled in the cinematography program at University of the Nations. |
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Silas Miller
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