Writer, Photographer, Adventurer
I was at my girlfriend’s office Christmas party in Vancouver the other day talking about innovative solutions for real-time monitoring of scour in river beds and found myself saying, “Oh, Chris? Yeah, I met him in Mexico in 2007, we accidentally spent a cold and rainy night in the jungle together.” My conversation partner took... Continue Reading →
Author's note: this article was written after the 2014 season. Since then, the Tahltan people lost a major court case; Imperial Metals completed construction of the Red Chris mine. It began operating in 2015. That battle has been lost, but there will certainly be more in the Sacred Headwaters. Learn more about the ongoing fights the local First Nations face to... Continue Reading →
After a quick rally from Utah to Vermont in time to catch a few laps on my favorite river, the New Haven, and to catch up with friends on the Deerfield Dryway, Daphnee and I dropped Dog off at my parents' house and caught a direct flight from NY to Lima, Peru. The only advice... Continue Reading →
Back when we moved to Utah (just over a year ago), we thought we could continue to fashion ourselves "whitewater kayakers" while living in the desert. So, we drove. A lot. Around Utah, throughout Idaho and Wyoming, and even all the way to Montana. In the process, we discovered one of the best kept whitewater... Continue Reading →
I'm not really good enough at skiing to warrant blogging about it, but sometimes I ski with people who are, so here goes. December sucked. It was too cold and icy to do anything at all. Seriously, I wished I had crampons to walk to the grocery store from my car in the parking lot. Next... Continue Reading →
I managed to get out on the Sheldon Springs section of the Missisquoi yesterday. American Whitewater is working on negotiating (well, arranging -- they were negotiated something like twenty years ago) releases on this northern VT section, and so I figured I'd post a video and brief description of the run. It's about a mile... Continue Reading →
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