When people take headphones wherever they go, I can appreciate that. It means that they're the type of person that knows that you always have the opportunity to play a soundtrack to whatever you're doing. Those people I can get down with. Those types of people allocate songs to specific memories and catalog their life…
Two things that weren't as we expected: the food and the weather. They actually play right into each other too. Back when I was planning this trip I thought the weather would be just miserable. I didn't think it would be snowing or anything, I just thought it would be cold, eternally shady, and we'd…
Heath sent me this Radiohead B side called 4 minute warning a while ago. Not sure what it was, but the first minute immediately made me think of rushing water. I could already hear that constant static noise that powerful water makes, so I basically edited this piece of video in my head weeks before…
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You know when you're on a road trip and you pull over because someone has to pee on the shoulder of the road, but when your friend starts to piss you pull the car forward about ten feet to show the world what he's got? Well, it's like that on a raft but better. When…
"Big day! Big day! Big Day!" I've heard that a lot of times in my life, and it's usually when I'm with Heath and we're waking up to do something potentially amazing, or scary. There really is nothing like that feeling of waking up in a hotel room full of your friends and realizing "today…
You've never seen four guys nicer than us when it comes to meeting park service rangers. Thank you's, please's, yes mam's, we've got it all. After you put your boats in the water and rig them up, you meet with a ranger so they can make sure you have all the required safety devices like…
Alright, we derived a plan for our meeting at the raft rental company. John and I would be the "experts", and when we didn't know something that seemed like a detail we should know, we'd send in Ben and Heath to ask the dumb questions. This is in no way implying that those guys are…
Four guys, all kinds of questionable gear, cases of camera equipment, three huge boxes from Poler, more socks than we could ever wear from Stance, a quick stop to see our friends at Brixton and we'd topped off John's Toyota Matrix to the absolute brim. The car ride out was the first chance for Ben,…
It's not easy to figure out who you should take on a rafting trip for 16 days. I'm actually damn near notorious for bringing people into the fold that just don't mix, but this time the two people we added to the roster I'm pretty sure are perfect for the job. So here's our…
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