WNM King of Cups WNM River Trip est. 1974
Since 1974

52 summers & counting

Same river, same trees, same folks you look forward to all year. Here's how a stack of inner tubes turned into a half-century tradition.

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Friends rafting together on an early river trip
A full crew gathered on the riverbank in Tube Division shirts

From the archives

A few snapshots from summers long past.

An early group photo lined up in front of the yellow school bus

loading up the bus

A big pile of inflated inner tubes stacked on the grass

the tube pile

Campers wading through the flooded campground in a high-water year

the great flood of ‘98

A cluster of friends rafted together in River Run tubes

rafting up

Campers gathered at long picnic tables for a communal dinner under the big trees

dinner under the oaks

The grill master tending tri-tip and peppers over a bed of coals

cook duty

A line of kids leaping off the bank into the river

the big jump

The wall of float-tournament trophies and champion plaques

the champions’ wall

Decades of River Trip t-shirts sewn together into a quilt, held up in the sun
The archive

Every summer gets a shirt.

Every year has its own design — its own artwork, its own inside joke, its own dated corner of Reedley history. Stitched together, decades of them read like a timeline you can wear.

From hand-drawn cartoons of the ‘90s to this year’s tie-dye, the shirts are how we keep score of the summers.

The way we do things

Little traditions that make the trip the trip.

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This year's tie-dye trip shirts drying on the fence against a valley sunset

from the flames we rise — 2025’s shirts, fresh off the dye