Roll On Mighty Columbia
Nearly 20 years ago a Colvile tribal member approached our environmental group, Citizens for a Clean Columbia, to become involved in their lawsuit to have the Upper Columbia and lake...
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Thirty-Five Years of Adventure
My first white water trip was in 1982 on the Penobscot River in Maine. I maintain that if my first trip had been earlier in my life, I would probably...
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I’ll be honest; when we hit our first rapids on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River and got a full dose of the COLD river water, I wondered: “What...
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Winter on the Lower Salmon
“Bring an axe”, they said. “Just in case you need to chop through the ice to get to shore.” This sounded crazy, but I packed the axe and launched my...
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River Time Machines
It’s day six in a push of 30+ days straight of work, 30+ days of sandwiching river trips in several states between long drives through the desert and gourmet meals...
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Keeping Lake Tahoe blue
This photo is taken in Lake Tahoe CA where I go every year with my family in summer and sometimes winter. But as I went this summer 2017 I found...
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It was Mike Ryans fault..
Michael Richard Ryan has 3 first names. While I had grown up next to various bodies of water from creeks to oceans Mike was the first person who truly brought...
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Smith
Wild and scenic Smith River, in isolated northern California, has been a spiritual river since the first people, the Tolowa, fished it for salmon. For my family and me, it...
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