As executive, assessor and senior guide of the New Zealand Rafting Association you would think that he would be pretty busy, but he has still found time to be a key teacher of Adventure Tourism at Waiariki Institute of Technology, a river manager in New Zealand, and a father. He has run an exclusive seafood restaurant in Wellington, New Zealand and brings his cooking expertise to our kitchen. Our little Costa Rican has a multitude of rivers under his belt that he has run. Tori has rafted rivers in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Columbia, Argentina, Brazil, Africa, Russia, Italy, Norway, and the United States. Tori was the Captain of the Costa Rican Men's Rafting Team in 1995, World Rafting Champion 1995, Costa Rica's Kayak Surf Champion, gold and silver medalist at the World's Sea Kayak Championships in Papua New Guinea 1998, and numerous medals in the 1999 nationals in Costa Rica and Latin America.
Tori loves kayaking, surfing, photography and travel.
During his off season with us he runs his own adventure photography company in Costa Rica. There is a ton of energy, humor and experience in this man. Josh Palmieri Josh is one of our local boys, hailing from Placerville, California, and because of this he brings with him a knowledge and history of the foothill area which he shares with all of his guests. Josh joined our company in 1999, but he has been guiding for the last 8 years. He possess the experience we look for in all of our guides, and his knowledge of rafting such rivers as the Tuolumne, California Salmon, Upper Klamath, Trinity, Mc Cloud, and Giant Gap only adds to his work with us on the South, North and Middle Forks of the American.