Photo Gallery

If you get some great shots at the American River Festival, we’d love to see them! Upload them to Flickr and tag them with “American River Festival” and we’ll pick them up automatically. Or you can contact us about uploading them to this site or linking to them.

American River Festival Photo

These are a few of the photos taken by Donna McMaster. We’ll be uploading more photos soon.

Chili Bar Rodeo 1988

Some classic photos taken by Donna McMaster at the 1988 Chili Bar Rodeo, April 1988, on the South Fork of the American River in California. In those days, the boats were too long to do most of the spins and aerial maneuvers that are so common today. Tricks generally involved paddle tosses or twirls, hand paddling, or controlled rolls with or without paddles.