Winter Gathering & Fundraiser
Join us for an evening of camaraderie, storytelling, and inspiration as we experience a Guide Story Slam and the screening of the short film “Redside”. This special fundraiser ensures we can continue serving our community in 2025 and beyond.
Snacks and beverages provided. Ticketing information forthcoming: guide discounts available.
Interested in sponsoring this event? Contact clay@redsidefoundation.org
Kegs 4 Cause
We are excited to be selected as a beneficiary of Payette Brewing’s Kegs 4 Kause program! Join us in their Tap Room in Boise. They will be donating half oft he proceeds from draft beer sales directly to us on Monday, August 21st from 6-10pm!
Raft 4 a Cause
Join Glacier Raft Company
SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 2023
Glacier Raft Company will be donating $5 to Redside Foundation for every person that rafts with us!
Book a trip online or give us a call today and show your support for this great organization.
glacierraftco.com | 406.888.5454
Redside Powerful Pints Party Night
Join us for a SUPER FUN night of acoustic music with JC DC- Jeff Crosby and Darci Carlson, a special raffle, and a celebration to raise funds to support the health and strength of the guiding community. $15 suggested donation is greatly appreciated!
Redside Foundation Rendezvous
This event is for river and land-based guides, recreationists, outdoor industry vendors, and local community members are invited to come together to build community and gain valuable backcountry skills. There will also be free health services for all attending guides!
Bardenay Charity Night
Please come for dinner and or drinks on Monday, May 14th, between 5-9 pm. 205 of all proceeds will go to The Redside Foundation.
Redside Montana Spring Fling
Join us for an evening of art, music, a live and silent auction, and a celebration of the guiding community. Tickets can be purchased here. Special price for MT, ID, and WY guides!
Idaho Gives BFF Block Party
Join us at Ann Morrison Park for the 4th Annual BFF Party for Idaho Gives! This year, we are moving the party to the park. Head to Ann Morrison Park for an all-ages, family-friendly event recognizing some of Idaho's incredible nonprofits!
April Virtual Guide Gathering: Transitions
The TRANSITION conversation will cover topics like balancing family life, surviving graduate school, starting an office job for the love of conservation, beginning a nursing career, what it's like to be on the RSF board, starting a small business, and the value of outdoor education and instruction. We have a range of powerful lenses and experiences that we are so grateful to bring together.
March Virtual Guide Gathering - Hosted by Dagny and Jon
Join the discussion about how to show up well in our existing communities and tonight we'll have a chance to have some open discussion about what goes well, and what could go better and get to explore as a group a few new tools on how we can organize and support each other during anything from the darkest months of winter to the summertime bursts of energy.
Pint Night- Imagination Brewing (Missoula)
Join us at Imagination Brewing on March 16th. A $10 donation to Redside Foundation gets you a pint and live IRISH MUSIC! Come down for the craic and support Montana guides.
Virtual Guide Gathering
Join us on Zoom: This month's virtual guide gathering will be happening on February 18 from 6 - 7 PM MST on zoom. We wanted to get you these dates ASAP so you can block it out in your calendar, plan any goofy outfits you may want to plan, and talk other guide friends into showing up with you.
This month we've been exploring how to show up well in our internal communities and on February 18 we'll have a chance to catch up with our favorite outdoor community members and share anything we've learned about ourselves as we explore our internal communities.
Past, present, and future guides are all welcome, as well as any partners or other supporters of outdoor professionals.
Even if you're not sure if you can stay the whole time, we'd love to have you jump on the call at the beginning or the end to see your faces.
Izaak Opatz Concert to benefit Montana Guides
Please join us for an incredible benefit concert with Izaak Opatz, on Thursday, January 26th, in Missoula!
@izaakopatz is a legendary Missoulian who plays fun, folk, and dance party tunes! He is incredibly generous and playing this show to benefit the @redsidefoundation_mt chapter.
Please bring cash for a suggested ticket donation or be ready to Venmo us, please! The venue at The Longstaff House is also being donated and has a capacity of 55 people. BYOB, and we’ll see ya there!
Flathead Trails Fair
Join us and 30+ non-profit and land agency partners that make up the network of trail planners, builders, fixers, guides, and educators in the Flathead. Come give Smokey the Bear a high five, practice shooting bear spray from a test canister, sign up for raffle prizes, and try your hand at a cross-cut saw. Free beer, live music, food trucks, raffles, and kid and dogs (on leash) friendly.
Forest Fair in Libby Montana
Join us at this community event at the Riverfront Park in Libby, MT and spark connection and conversation. Take a selfie with Smokey the Bear, enjoy meeting a whole bunch of cool folks, and enter to win some awesome prizes. Kid-friendly activities.
Pint Night at Cranky Sam's
Join us for a super fun night in Missoula at Cranky Sam’s. One dollar for every pint sold will go to support the health and strength of the Montana guiding community!
Backcountry Horse First Aid Clinic
This event has been canceled - please stay tuned for a possible online option for 2022. This event will return in 2023. Dr. Shane Baird, DVM, will be returning to The Redfish Corrals to share his backcountry first aid for horses clinic on June 3rd, 11- 4:30 PM. This is a free clinic for guides who work with horses or would like to in the future. Dr. Baird will share valuable skills for dealing with common issues that can become devastating in the backcountry, such as colic, eye issues, and lacerations. You will also learn how to build a horse-specific first aid. This clinic to brought to you by Mystic Saddle Ranch, Shane Baird, DVM, and The Redside Foundation. Please RSVP via email to info@redsidefoundation.org with the names of all who are attending with you.
Health Fair
On May 21st, our Annual Health Fair is BACK! During the Idaho River Rendezvous all guides can receive free health services including basic blood work, vaccinations, STD tests, oral cancer screenings, chiropractic care, vouchers for free IUDs and more. From 7 am to 2 pm on Saturday, May 21st.
Community Resilience Training
Learn the Strategies: Learn four specific strategies to help you make decisions in the field, build a more resilient nervous system, help support anxious/fearful guests, and reduce the impact of post-traumatic stress in first responder roles.
Learn the Science: Learn about the neuroscience behind how trauma and stress impact our bodies. How do our five senses play a role in building resilient bodies and minds?
Build Resiliency: Practice the four body-based strategies with relevant scenarios in river, rock, and mountaineering disciplines. Begin your own resiliency journey.
The Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® trains community members to not only help themselves but to help others within their wider social network. The goal of CRM is to create trauma-informed and resiliency-focused communities that share a common understanding of the impact of trauma and chronic stress on the nervous system. CRM skills help people understand their nervous system and learn to track sensations connected to their own well-being. The primary focus of this skills-based model is to reset the nervous system’s natural balance. Using the wisdom of their own bodies, people experience rapid relief from stress-related symptoms, as well as an increased sense of control over future wellness. Please RSVP to info@redsidefoundation.org
Burnout and Resilience
Join us for an interactive presentation by Cody Sohn, former instructor and coach in performance enhancement and resilience techniques at Fort Benning, GA, and Guide Liaison Carly Knudsen, diving into the subject of Burnout and Resilience. This virtual presentation will help you discover your strengths that can help combat burnout and provide insight into the causes of burnout and the roles of the individual and community in being more resilient. Join via Zoom. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4134218712
February Fling
A fundraising event at the Elks Lodge in Jackson WY. Stories, Supper, and a Silent Auction to benefit the professional outdoor guiding community. Get tickets here. Bid on silent auction items here.
Guide Gathering at The Little Ski Hill
Please join us for a Guide Gathering from 6-9 pm. Come and see guide friends, learn more about what RSF can do for you, and ski! Guides ski free! Special thanks to Hells Canyon Raft and Salmon Raft for sponsoring food and beverage for the event.
2022 Community Building Challenge
The 2022 Community Building Challenge is a month-long self-guided challenge to help you bolster the quality of relationships in your life. Each day in February there will be a ‘mini-task’ that will take approx. 5-15 minutes to complete. These are designed to help you reflect, plan, learn, play, and rest. All you have to do is follow along! You can find all the details on the Community Building Challenge PageCommunity Building Challenge Page.
Nutritional Resilience for Every Season
Join us for a session with Kelly Miller to learn how to eat for resiliency in every season. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4134218712
Virtual Holiday Party- Guide Gift Exhange
Open to all Idaho and Montan Guides. Please join us on December 22nd at 7 P.M. MT time for a guide community holiday party. If you participated in the Guide Gift Exchange, this is your chance to share the joy of opening your present with friends. This is a virtual event. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4134218712
Forest Fair
Join us in Libby, Montana at the Riverfront Park from 3-9 on Sept. 24th. We will be guests of Wild Montana and are excited to see you get your picture taken with Smokey the Bear, win some cool prizes, and come say hi to us! We will have RSF merchandise for sale!
Wild Rivers Film Tour
The Wild Rivers Film Tour returns for its 6th year! Films celebrate wild rivers, the people who love them, and the need to protect them.
Join us! We will have swag for sale.
The Wild Rivers Film Tour is back for its 6th year! This homegrown film tour celebrates the human connection to wild rivers. Films feature recreation, adventure, river conservation, Indigenous perspectives, and more. We're also raising awareness about work being done to protect these irreplaceable waters. Join us for an evening of fun, films, and inspirational waters. Doors open at 7:30pm, show begins at 8:00pm. Co-hosted by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and American Rivers.
This film screening will be shown at Love Boat Paddle Co. Please bring a chair for yourself.
COVID-19 Information: We are following the COVID-19 cases in Montana and are committed to hosting a safe, outdoor event. Please sit with the group you traveled with and wear a mask whenever not eating or drinking throughout the showing. If you have experienced any COVID-19 symptoms in the last ten days or have been exposed to an individual who recently tested positive, we ask that you please stay home. If you are unable to attend for this reason, contact us and we will issue a refund. Thank you!
This year's film lineup:
Can't Beat This Place for Fun - 14 min
Water Flows Together - 11 min
Strongwater - 10 min
A Healing Journey - 15 min
Rio Rica - 16 min
KC Badger has Never Caught a Steelhead - 4 min
River of Return - 27 min
Backcountry First Aid for Horses
In conjunction with Mystic Saddle Ranch and Shane Baird, DVM, we are hosting a FREE clinic for guides and outfitters to better educate guides on how to handle stock-related emergencies when a vet or extensive veterinary supplies are unavailable. Shane will share how to create a backcountry horse first aid kit and use it for various issues that may occur while guiding, such as eye injuries, colic (from mild to severe), and lacerations – how to repair, clean and bandage. Each participant will leave with a workbook. The clinic takes place at the Redfish Corrals.
Shane Baird, DMV is an Idaho native who operates a mobile vet clinic in Golden, CO. He has a passion for teaching and sharing hands-on experience. Before becoming a DVM, he packed with The Flying B and guided on the Middle Fork of the Salmon and Main Salmon rivers. Currently, he rides as vet support with various organizations throughout the Rocky Mountains.
Spaces are limited to 50 participants. Please RSVP with the number of attendees by May 10th via email to info@redisdefoundation.org
Lochsa Madness!
Come say ‘Hey’ on Saturday at Knife Edge during Lochsa Madness. Sign up to win some swag and learn more about how RSF supports guides. (image courtesy of NRS)
Guide gathering and song writing
Join Idaho guide Max Lewis around the digital campfire and group-write a song about Idaho, rivers, salmon, and all the goodness that lies between. Bring your guitar, your voice, your wit, your stories, and your rhymes. We will collectively write a song that can live on and off the river (just like us!).