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David Sacquety

When it comes to all things rafting, David Sacquety is The Man! With decades of river experience, David has been humbling kayakers for years by rafting rivers and rapids that kayakers previously thought were only runnable in a kayak. With his tremendous river experience, love of travel, and seemingly endless amounts of energy, it is simply a blast having David as part of the Wet Planet team.

David began guiding whitewater professionally when he was 15, spending Springs and Summers on Southeastern classics such as the Upper Yough, Cheat, and Tygart Rivers and the Fall seasons on the Upper Gauley River. To date, his experience and accomplishments running whitewater are impressive:

21 years of professionally guiding whitewater
Commercial river experience in the USA (including West Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Colorado, California, Oregon and Washington), Chile, India, Nepal, Africa and New Zealand.
Commercial guiding experience on 39 different rivers around the world.
Class V raft guide
First raft descents on several Class V runs, including the North Fork of the South Platte River in Colorado (Bailey Canyon), Pindar River in Uttaranchal, India, Spirit Falls (Little White Salmon River, WA - 35 feet), Wishbone Falls (Little White Salmon River, WA), Stove Top Falls (Little White Salmon River, WA), Horseshoe Falls (East Fork Lewis River, WA), Big Falls (aka Big Kahuna, Canyon Creek, WA) and Curtain Falls (center Fork Feather River, CA - 30 feet).
Second raft descent of Big Brother (White Salmon, WA).
Photo of Spirit Falls raft run (with Doc Loomis) featured in SOTAR advertisement in Paddler Magazine and Oregon Outdoors.
Photo of Wishbone Falls raft run (with Ryan Baumgartner) featured in Aire/Cascade Outfitters advertisement in Paddler Magazine.
Photo of Curtain Falls raft run (with Dave Slover) featured in SOTAR advertisement in Paddler Magazine.
First commercial paddle raft descents of Upper Animas River in Colorado (with Ray Kitson), and Zanksar River, India.
Trained as Wilderness First Responder by Wilderness Medical Institute.
Trained as Whitewater Rescue Technician by Rescue 3.
Been guiding on White Salmon since 1994. He actually worked at the current Wet Planet headquarters location when it was still a gas station with AAA Rafting. You could say that he is the Wet Planet employee with the longest tenure.
Worked in New Zealand on the Kaituna River and ran Tutea Falls 4 times per day. If you think that Husum Falls is big, you should try this one. It is 21 feet (7 meters) high!

With all of the time David has spent on rivers running challenging whitewater, it is probably even more impressive that he has found the time and energy to explore so many other interests as well. Somewhere in there he found the time to earn a BA in History from Mary Washington College and an MBA (Master of Business Administration) from Oregon State University. He has traveled in Egypt, Kenya, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, The Netherlands, Great Britain, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Spain, and France. He has trekked to the Mount Everest base camp and the Annapurna base camp in Nepal, and scuba dived in Malaysia and New Zealand. He played soccer and wrestled in High School and played rugby in college. He has even run four marathons.