Category Adventure
Every place has that thing that tourists always do and locals only do when they’ve got friends visiting. In New York, it’s the Empire State building. In Logan, UT, it’s hiking to the Wind Cave. After more than a year… Continue Reading →
We’ve been trying to visit a lot of new places in Utah this fall since we’ll only be living here for at most another year, and while it’s hard not to go to the same places over and over again… Continue Reading →
The Salmon River drainage in Idaho is home to some of the most classic multi-day rivers in the country, if not the world. The Middle Fork and the Main are permitted sections of river with phenomenal class III-IV whitewater, beautiful… 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… Continue Reading →
188 days on the water 82 sections of river 3 countries 11 US states 61 New Haven laps 13 Vermont Weekly Whitewater Beer Series Races 5 published pieces (for which I was paid — a couple more pro bono in… Continue Reading →
Outside Middlebury, VT tucked away just beyond the prying eyes of passing leef peepers lies one of the most dramatic bedrock river gorges in the state. Its sculpted corridor houses four back-to-back waterfalls, the final two hidden beneath overhanging walls… Continue Reading →
For those who aren’t members of the Vermont Paddler’s Club, below is an article I wrote for their yearly publication about the Otter Creek Race Series I started this summer. Arriving in Vermont in February after three months paddling in… Continue Reading →
I’m no stranger to the kind of kayak trip that people call a “mission.” Accidentally spending a night on the river in Mexico. Postholing tits deep in northern NH with a kayak strapped to my back. The list goes on; I’ve had… Continue Reading →
So, you eat local. You’re an AW member. You signed that online petition to save the polar bears from drowning – that one everyone shared on Facebook. You even sent a check for twenty bucks to that conservation group after… Continue Reading →
The spring we never had rolled into the best summer in recent memory here in New England. The New Haven ran over 800cfs every day for 14 days straight…and to top it off, it would rain at night and be… Continue Reading →