Reddit mentions of The Guide's Guide Augmented: Reflections on Guiding Professional River Trips

HIGHLY Recommend this book: The Guide's Guide

I own the earlier, non augmented version, but it's the same book. This was written by a very successful company operating on multiple rivers in California back in the day. The owner retired and they now only operate on one river.

Anyway, some of this stuff is clearly specific to they way this company did things, but the core values and organizational systems presented in this book are the gold standard for being a good guide. The book covers everything from customer interactions and meal prep to river signals and basic hydrology.

It's 20 bucks on Amazon. The company I work for keeps like 15 copies of it and would pay you three hours of work if you read this book in your spare time. I've read it multiple times for my own refresher in the spring, and have my own copy now.

EDIT: Woah, I just read about this new version on Amazon. The augmented version is like twice as long as my version (140 pages vs 316 pages). Sounds like they added a ton of material about Swiftwater Rescue and such. My book does not have all that. Mine is the old 1980s version. The newer version also has river stories, games, and riddles, and a lot more. Basically, it is the book I have, and then another books worth of content added about being a good guide. Haha. I'm gonna have to buy the new one too! It sounds like this update was in 2005, so there will be updates to what is in my book to keep things current I guess.

You can buy this book on Amazon. I'm not sure if you are trying to get one in some other way, but I left you the link.

https://www.amazon.com/Guides-Guide-Augmented-Reflections-Professional/dp/0977277402