The New APEs Website has ARRIVED!
If you’ve made it to this post, you’ve already started navigating through our new website. We hope you love it! Riverapes.org now has many features to help us all connect online and offline for river trips, educational classes, safety information and all things APES!
Events Page: This will be your interactive go-to source for everything on our calendar for the upcoming season. You can view events in many ways including a traditional calendar view, and filter events by educational classes, paddle meetups, or river clean-ups. Events also appear on other pages in the site for easy finds.
Discord: What’s one of the hardest things to do when you’re starting out paddling? Finding people to paddle with and learn from!! We’re here to help. We now have group chats on Discord! First, you will have to sign up for a free Discord account (www.discord.com). Then within your membership confirmation or renwal email you will receive an invitation to join our private APES Discord server. We have chat groups for each river class, starting with flat water and moving up to Class III+/IV. All members will have access to all chat groups.
We added this feature to make it easier for you to find other members interested in paddling the same river difficulties and classes. Also, when you’re feeling like stepping up, you’ll have access to paddlers running those rivers and sections.
Mentoring is as old as people, and mentoring has a strong tradition on the river. It is the way.
Since this is a new feature for APES, it might take some time to get going as everyone gets more familiar with how to utilize it. Please post trips, trip reports, and other river-related info on our new Discord!
Membership: The new site also will make becoming a member and maintaining your membership much easier. Our new membership management system, Join It, is linked in the main navigation menu.
Existing members already have their email set up in the new system. You just have to “claim your membership” by setting up a password and answer a few questions. Download the PDF instructions here.
Once you’re active in the membership system, you will be able to sign up for members-only classes, set up your membership to autorenewal, check your expiration date, and view a directory of all members. Welcome aboard!
“The Flow” Blog: This will be a place for informative articles, trip reports, conservation and public service projects, or articles on other topics. Like this one!
Our goal is to use the online world as a resource to get offline, get to the river and unplug with fellow river APES!
SYOTR!!
Brad Eldridge
President APE
