Amanda took her first raft trip with Cascade in 2001 and proudly declared her intent to come back and work someday. Doing just that in 2007 Amanda has spent time in the café, river school, on the water and in the office. Amanda is hard to pin down and has been spending time working on a Montessori Teaching Certification in Prague as well as doing contract work that takes her across the lower 48. Her favorite part of the river is the found family and lifelong friendships she has discovered on the banks of the Payette.