Sawtooth Adventure Company & Rocky Mountain River Tours Commercial Driver 

This position combines two different driving jobs to create a fast paced, full-time, fun and adventurous seasonal position with very competitive wages.  You can expect to work 6/7 days a week plus gratuity. 

Rocky Mountain River Tours Big Rig Driver

Drive the Rocky Rig Truck, an International Commercial Truck, 6 Speed, Diesel with 22’ enclosed trailer through the wilds of Idaho.  Work with Middle Fork and Main Salmon Guides at rig and derig.

Sawtooth Adventure Company Day Trip Driver

Days between RMRT trips you will Safely Drive a school bus full of guest with a raft trailer to support our day trip operation in Stanley. Work with a team of river guides managing guests and gear. Fun and fast paced.  Take pictures of our rafting guests at rapids

Seasonal Full Time May 24-Sept 10.  Competitive Wages. Housing Options available.

Job Requirements

Hustle. This is an active position including lifting gear and directing guests in a fast pace, often busy, stressful environment at the river put-ins and take out.

Team player.  You are an essential part of the guide teams

Service Oriented

Clean Driving Record

Commercial Drivers License. We will train and license you

You will be interacting with the public at river access points

Lunch Camp Facelift

This season our beloved lunch trip is getting a facelift! Throughout the years, this trip has been a customer favorite thanks to its fun, family-friendly, splashy float down the Salmon River. This fun-filled adventure ends with a delicious lunch at our secluded lunch camp.

However, this year, our whitewater lunch trip is being renovated to create a more exclusive experience! Ultimately, this gives our guests a taste of what it is like to experience the relaxing pace of “river time”. This is commonly something that you would experience on a multi-day trip with Rocky Mountain River Tours, our multi-day sister company.

What to expect…

During this day float, you will raft through two Class III rapids (Piece of Cake and The Narrows). These rapids are known to provide family-friendly fun with lots of splashy waves to cool you down on hot summer days. These have always been a staple of our trips, however, with our new lunch trip schedule, we will be adding an optional hike to the agenda before entering The Narrows. This hike features a slight incline, with a stunning view of the Robinson Bar Ranch. This remote 128-acre ranch was where the first gold in Idaho was found and is beautiful to view from the saddle above.

After completing Piece of Cake, the Robinson Bar Hike, and The Narrows, our guests will arrive at our recently improved lunch camp. Here they may sit in comfortable Adirondack chairs, play cornhole, and eat delicious food. To wrap everything up, we will now be serving dutch oven cakes for dessert at lunch camp! Delicious chocolate cake and our famous carrot cake will satisfy even the sweetest of sweet tooths.

The next time you stop in Stanley, make sure to swing by Sawtooth Adventure Company to book your exclusive lunch trip down the Salmon River. This is bound to be the highlight of your Sun Valley vacation, and we can’t wait to show you a piece of “River Time”! More information and booking availability can be found here.

*This trip has limited availability and can be booked out quickly. Make sure to give us a call at (866)774-4644 to book your adventure today.

Job Description

High volume, competitive, commission-based phone and email sales position for rafting reservations with Sawtooth Adventure Company in Stanley Idaho. The Reservation specialist is a telework position. 

Compensation

The guaranteed wage for 12-week period is $6000 or 5% commission on all booked reservations, whichever is greater. Compensation includes additional performance-based bonuses, reimbursement for mobile phone and internet expenses and free rafting trips. 

Required Dates

Telework May 20- August 8. 12 weeks.  Must have reliable mobile & internet access. 

Job Requirements

Job REQUIRES reliable phone & internet service for the 12 week period.

24/7 monitoring of the SAC toll-free reservation phone line and trip email inquiries. 

Maintain exceptional response time, verbal communication and customer service while selling river trips over the phone in a highly competitive environment. Fast response time is essential. 

Expereince in Stanley Idaho and rafting with Sawtooth Adventure Company

Please send resume and work references to Jared@rafttrips.com 

Congratulations and Farewell 

Johnny, Jenna, and Jane Rafting Down the River

After EIGHTEEN years of working for Sawtooth Adventure Company, it is finally time to introduce and say goodbye to Johnny Landward. Johnny is a treasured aspect of this operation, doing everything from guiding to booking to managing all of our river guides and their trips. Over the years he has seen just about every trick in the book from our river guides and guests, making a lasting impression on everyone he interacts with. 

Over the Years – 

During Johnny’s early years at Sawtooth Adventure Co., he was a paddle guide on the day stretch. Before this, he guided in Jackson but heard of work in Stanley. From here, he chatted with his brother who knows the owner (Jared), and set up a date to meet. After chatting over a beer, he decided that he was able to make the move to Idaho to work on the Upper Salmon. 

Throughout his first years at SAC, Johnny was an outstanding paddle guide. He always wanted to make sure that guests would have the best experience possible. In fact, Johnny would even prepare the lunches for our 10 AM trips almost every day just to make sure that nothing was missing and all the guests would be fed well and happy. Down the line, all of this enthusiasm and care for guest experience pushed him up into the world of multi-day guiding on the Middle Fork and Main Salmon. However, all of this enthusiasm also won him the job of doing new guide orientations and ultimately becoming the full-time manager of Sawtooth Adventure Co. 

For many, it is the job of guiding that draws people in, but it is the people they meet that keeps them around. This is exactly what happened with Johnny. Although he and his wife met while teaching skiing in Park City, UT, they both ended up guiding for SAC and Rocky Mountain River tours (our sister company). Jenna worked on the Salmon River for ten years – eight of which were working for SAC. Not to mention, she was the lead guide for the Main Salmon when the current owner, Jared Hopkinson, bought the company Rocky Mountain River Tours. 

The Highlights

When asking Johnny what his favorite memory from his Summers in Stanley is, he responded with no hesitation that it is raising his daughter Jane alongside his wife Jenna. These summers consisted of living in the room above the Stanley Fly Shop, along with spending an ample amount of time camping around the Sawtooths and Redfish Lake. However, the most memorable part has been watching Jane grow up to love Thursday Street Dances and swimming in the Alpine Lakes. 

Although watching his family grow has been his favorite memory, his best-loved part of his job is the problem-solving that occurs every day. Johnny says that “every day is a puzzle”. This could not be a more accurate description of what it is like to manage SAC, especially this year, with almost 20 guides needing to be worked into the equation. However, this is a double-edged sword due to the time commitment that this puzzle requires. 

For the Future

Now that Johnny is finally relinquishing his position at Sawtooth Adventure, he looks forward to spending more time with Jenna and Jane. In true Johnny spirit, he is aiming to become a school Social Worker where he can help children in families in Salt Lake City. Although, after eighteen years of dedicating his summers to guests and the river, he is excited to have time during those warm months to explore different places with his family. 

Thank you Johnny for all that you have done over the years! You and your family’s enthusiasm will be missed in Stanley, but we wish you the best in your next endeavor! 

With much love, 

The SAC Pac

Looking Into The Night

As people flock from the city to the mountains, there are constantly individuals who are amazed by the stars that light up the night sky. When you are in large cities, the bright artificial lights from buildings create light pollution. This pollution cancels out the stars above and makes them more difficult to see. However, when you move away from the city and into the mountains, you are able to experience the magic that the night sky provides. In order to preserve this, Idaho has created the “Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve”.

Photo By Jesse Delamotte 

About the Reserve 

The Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve encompasses a vast amount of land throughout the Sawtooth National Forrest. This land (and the sky above it) covers almost 1,416 square miles! This stretches across multiple towns, one of which includes Stanley. 

This reserve was put into place in order to protect the land, animals, and natural environment. Starting in 2017, Ketchum, Idaho was the first to being this process. Since then, many of the surrounding towns have followed suit and adopted the concept of preserving visitors’ ability to see ample amounts of stars in the night sky.

Protecting Animals

Even before recorded time, the one thing that animals could count on was that the sun would rise and set every day. They knew to look for the light and what it meant. However, humans have developed a strong relationship with artificial lighting, this system has now been thrown out of order. Now, animals, such as birds, can easily get disoriented by glaring city lights. 

Birds that migrate or hunt at night navigate by moonlight and starlight. However, artificial light can cause them to lose their sense of direction. In the end, this may lead them in the wrong direction, or, even worse into a dangerous cityscape. For example, every year millions of birds perish by colliding with buildings that are artificially illuminated during the night. By limiting the amount of light that is put out into the night sky, issues such as this one could be mitigated.

How Towns are Helping

Over time, producing light consumes a large sum of energy. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, almost 35% of light is wasted by unshielded and poorly aimed lighting. As a result, this adds up to almost $3.3 billion and 21 million tons of carbon dioxide per year.  

However, there are multiple things that towns are doing in order to reduce their light use. The primary action that is being taken is for homes and businesses to install dark sky-friendly lighting. This means that towns are pushing for residents to install fixtures that direct light downward on areas that need to be illuminated. By doing this, it limits the glare and up-lighting into the night sky. Along with this, choosing bulbs for outdoor lights that provide warm white light with a yellow glow rather than a cool blue light is extremely helpful.

Ultimately, all of this effort is to preserve the ability for future generations to look into the night sky and be amazed by the galaxy above them. Similarly, this reserve benefits the animals in the area by eliminating unnecessary light pollution that affects their natural circadian rhythm. So, the next time you visit Stanely, Idaho take a look up into the night sky and take a gander at the stars that whirl above.