A sacred, wild force that inspires my love for wild rivers
The Gunnison River from the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park captivates my spirit of the west, wilderness, and also holds the legacy of wildness in America. As a...
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A River Woven Through it From Start to Finish
We discovered love, and wild rivers, on the Salt. Life was simple then – it fit in the back of a truck. We took advantage, exploring new rivers at every...
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A River Trip Changed My Whole Outlook On Life
I was a workaholic. I had been working many large engineering projects 6 days a week, no vacations, for 7 years or so. When one of the projects was near...
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A New Perspective on the Verde
I don’t think about water or rivers when I think about Arizona. “But there isn’t any water in Arizona” has sputtered out of my mouth on more than one occasion.
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A Humbling View.
This isn’t a stellar photo. Nor is it that recent. However it is taken from a truly unique perspective during an interesting period of time. I am looking upstream, standing...
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A Chance to Build Confidence
I love rivers, but paddling whitewater is not something that comes to me naturally. I’m proud of how far I’ve come with my paddling abilities since I began boating in...
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A beautiful place and a beautiful area
A couple of years ago, my brother and I decided to raft the Denali River. My brother was a guide for the University of Alaska-Fairbanks at the time. It was...
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60,000cfs
It was 2011. I was turning 40 in June. I wanted to do a river trip, so we chose Cataract Canyon with OARS. But, we decided to go in July,...
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