Maine Whitewater Rafting Guide Brett Bissonnette
Maine Whitewater Rafting Guide Brett Bissonnette Name: Brett Bissonnette Hometown: Sebago, ME Year you started guiding at Northern Outdoors: 2025
Whitewater rafting guides go through extensive training (see Whitewater Guide School and What It Takes to Become a Registered Maine Whitewater Guide) and testing before taking guests down the river. Many of our guides have been leading rafting trips for over 20 years. Some of our guides also lead ATV tours, snowmobiling tours, whitetail deer hunts, fishing trips, and hiking excursions. It’s clear from your trip reviews that our guides make whitewater rafting safe, fun, and a truly memorable experience. Endless thanks to this crew of extraordinary Maine Guides!
Maine Whitewater Rafting Guide Brett Bissonnette Name: Brett Bissonnette Hometown: Sebago, ME Year you started guiding at Northern Outdoors: 2025
Maine Whitewater Rafting Guide Sarah Gifford Name: Sarah Gifford Hometown: Raymond, ME Age of First Rafting Trip: 21 Year you
Maine Whitewater Rafting Guide Ty Mahnke Name: Ty Mahnke Hometown: Brookfield, WI Age of First Rafting Trip: 16 Year you
Once a river guide, always a river guide! While Beth’s full-time role is manager of our office and reservations, she still finds time for whitewater.
Brinna Snow, guide class of ’24, can be found adventuring all over Maine- but one of her favorite spots is the Penobscot River in Baxter State Park!
Our local river monkey, Molly, puts her Adventure Education skills to the test by guiding whitewater rafts in the summers.
Leah is a tribal Passamaquoddy revenue moose hunting guide – so when she’s done river season, you can find her in the woods scouting!
New to Northern Outdoors but not whitewater guiding, Matt also brings his musical talent to the river. Ask him for a tune on his jaw harp!
Living every nomad’s dream, Jonathan travels the U.S. in his built out van. Lucky for us, his travels have brought him to The Forks, Maine as a whitewater rafting guide!
Friends, meet Maine Whitewater Guide Conor Doherty- COVID’s 2020 “Rookie” Guide of the Year, 2021 Outstanding Performance, Level II guide, Trip Leader, AND server extraordinaire!
Northern Outdoors’ raft guides have made a life out of being professional nomads – migrating from winter work to summers on the river. So, what do they do to piece it all together? Teachers, Ski patrollers, and other professionals make up the most experienced guide staff on the river.
Allow us to introduce the 2021 Rookie Guide of the Year, Mira D’Amato! Mira is a river guide by summer, ski patroller by winter. What’s her favorite brew after a day on the river? Brewer’s Choice, of course!