Never the Same
Every Summer for 11 years, I loaded my kids, picnic foods, towels, and water shoes into my car and off we drove from Merced California, up towards Yosemite. The Merced...
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Why I Can’t Seem to Leave
I keep on trying to get away from this river. It’s too damn hot and it’s too damn steep. The main section of the Salmon River, where the Wild and...
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The river is the lifeblood of the world. The river carries the hopes and dreams of all peoples along its currents and through its ripples. The seemingly endless blue facilitates...
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My wife and I both grew up in muddy river country; I near the Arkansas and she near the Mississippi. Neither of us had any interest in venturing into these...
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Pringle Creek could qualify as a river because it’s fairly large and swift as it flows through the middle of Salem, Oregon. It has a few tributaries, and one of...
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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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There I was setting on a Lg rock high above the Great Barren Lands River, the Hood. The only humans within hundreds of miles were my canoe mates down by...
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My River runs through our neighborhood. It is almost never exactly the same – sometimes boisterous and other times milder – when there isn’t a lot of snow melt or...
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