Dowd Chute is the locals favorite run for the early season, offering a great trip close to Vail and Beaver Creek.  The Eagle River is fed completely by snowmelt, so the snow you skied on during the winter offers you an action-packed rafting trip in the summer, starting around early May and mellowing out by mid-summer. Dowd Chute Class IV offers continuous rapids on our county's namesake river!  

For physically fit paddlers and minimum age of 16 years old.