Saving a Local Favorite
Fossil Creek may be the lowest-flow river preserved under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. Compared to most whitewater, its a trickle. The size of the river doesn’t match with...
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San Juan Musings
I love this desert, this microcosm surrounding the San Juan drainage. The river canyon and the water call out to me. The red rocks, the burning sun, the peace and...
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Rivers make me feel the most alive of anything
I seem best able to define my life by rivers. This is true across my family: we know ourselves best within the landscape of water moving downstream, traversing varied ecosystems,...
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Rivers Bring Life
One of the coolest river experiences that I’ve really enjoyed was going through the Grand Canyon. I’ve been on one other rafting trip before but it was just a couple...
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Rivers are Magic
A long trip in a van exploring the West brought me to western rivers. I started in Jackson Hole guiding one-day trips, but I’d say what really caught my attention...
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Rivers are Life-Changing
I’m told my first river trip was in 1965. I would have been three years old. [My parents] owned two river companies as I was growing up, but they retired...
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Rivers are Healing
On a Yampa trip in 2012, fresh off the amputation of my lower left leg, I was able to take an actual step from the bank of the river onto...
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River? What’s a River? (from Jumping Mouse story in Seven Arrows.)
Chicago, 1970 Grew up in a nice little Jewish ghetto in Chicago. Miraculously my mother gave me the option of Outward Bound or Military School (where you went when you...
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