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Todd Collins |
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A fifteen year veteran of the commercial whitewater industry, Todd Collins is the original visionary behind the creation of Wet Planet Rafting and Kayaking. An expert kayaker and raft guide, this Wet Planet co-owner's credentials are impressive: |
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| First hooked
on kayaking at a North Carolina Summer camp, Todd began guiding rafts
as a way to pursue his passion for whitewater kayaking. Says Todd,
"At the time, it was the best way I knew to live by the river and
kayak every day." In an effort to spend as much time on rivers as
possible, Todd worked summers as a raft guide while attending Connecticut
College. Upon graduating Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, with
a degree in Computer Science, Philosophy, and Spanish Studies, Todd
quickly turned his attention to pursuing a full-time career in the
whitewater industry. Since then, Todd has guided rafts and kayak safety
boated on rivers in the US from California to West Virginia and from
Texas to Alaska, as well as numerous rivers in Canada, Ecuador, Costa
Rica (where he spent two years living and guiding custom kayak trips),
and Chile. An expert level kayaker and raft guide, he is equally at
home guiding rafts on such legendary Class V rivers as the Upper Gauley
and Upper Yough as he is guiding advanced kayakers on jungle rivers
in Central America. An ACA certified whitewater kayak and canoe instructor,
Todd is also passionate about sharing his love of whitewater with
others. He is a Level II Senior Instructor and Course Leader for the
National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). As a river instructor
for NOLS, Todd teaches whitewater kayak, raft, and canoe skills, expedition
travel skills, leadership and expedition dynamics, and natural history
within the format of multi-day wilderness expeditions. With NOLS,
Todd has led multi-day trips from the deserts of the Rio Grande River
on the Texas-Mexico border to 30-day expeditions above the Arctic
Circle in Alaska's Brooks Range. Todd is also a River Rescue Instructor-Trainer
for NOLS as well as a Swiftwater Rescue Instructor for Rescue3 International,
and has spent time training instructors in both river rescue techniques
and the skills to teach those techniques to others. |
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He has also worked as an educator for the California based Headwaters Institute, an organization dedicated to training whitewater guides in environmental concerns and natural history knowledge surrounding their particular river communities. Traveling with the Headwaters Institute throughout river communities in California and Colorado while facilitating two-day seminars for river guides, Todd used his educational experience from NOLS to deliver classes designed to develop guides' abilities to communicate their new found knowledge with their rafting guests. Todd is also a certified Leave No Trace educator. In this role, Todd has been committed to inspiring others to follow the principles of minimal impact wilderness travel as laid out by the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics. Todd brings his skills, experience, and passion to Wet Planet, as the company continues to set standards in the Pacific Northwest. To learn more about the way Wet Planet is raising the bar in the Pacific Northwest, read more about our standards. |
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| If you have any doubt that team WET PLANET is one of the industry's leaders, check out some of our key staff: | ||||||||||||||
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