The Bakersfield Californian Kern River rafting season was one wild ride, and it's not over yet Steven Mayer, The Bakersfield Californian Tue, Aug 29, 2023 · 3 min read ...

With a healthy snowpack in the Sierras, the Kern River above Isabella Lake is running full and local businesses can take you for as much or as little adventure as you can handle. "Forty-five ...

About 60 rafters took on the Kern River for Whitewater Wednesday. In addition to the rafting, the participants gained knowledge of proper safety.

It started out like a typical whitewater rafting trip on the North Fork of the Kern River. Boaters paddled through churning rapids, gliding past boulders and crashing through breaking waves.

It is good news, though, if your business is whitewater rafting. Joshua Yeager of our member station KVPR takes us to the Sierra Nevada mountains on the upper Kern River. (SOUNDBITE OF WATER RUSHING) ...

River's End Rafting is a white water rafting company in Northeast Bakersfield. During the summer they have daily trips down the Kern River from just inside the canyon to just north of Ming Lake.

On Monday, authorities found the body of a man who had been rafting with his son, who is between 12 and 14 years old. They were on the Kern River west of Lake Isabella when they were thrown out of ...

Kern River Tours and Kern River Outfitters didn’t run last year either. Darron Nilsson, owner of River’s End, gave it his all in 2014, his 10th anniversary. But not this year.

I’ve been avoiding it.” Dismal snowpack levels in the southern Sierra Nevada have forced rafting companies up and down the 165-mile Kern River to make tough business decisions this year.

This adventure would be a very different beast: more challenging rapids, to say nothing of the sense of immersion that any rafting junkie will tell you comes only by making the river your home for ...

But the exceedingly wet winter has returned the 165-mile Kern, California’s 10th-longest river and a favorite among whitewater rafting enthusiasts, to a power not seen in years.

To call 2023 an unusual water year in the Kern River Basin would be a serious understatement. But then in August it got even more unusual. Just as the whitewater rafting season was beginning to ...