There's nights at home when you make big plans, big plans that involve rounding up your friends, making sure that no one has to work the next day, getting some drinks, and then hoping that things get wild and everyone has a blast. Then there are the nights where you get "accidentally hammered". No real…
Hiking in the Grand Canyon is way more dangerous than the river. Not kidding, hands down more risky. Most of the hiking in the national parks that I've done I've always been pretty impressed with how well the trails are established and how good the signage is. Even in the backcountry, you'll rarely get lost…
Dear Dad, camp is great. So much has happened in the past few days. Ben fell out of the raft with no life jacket and a beer in his hand, but everything's cool now. He's so crazy One day we came across a massive amphitheater cave thing. Heath said he wanted to reenact some concert…
An instagram friend sent this to me this morning: Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." -Hellen Keller…
No matter how new you are to something, you always adapt to it quicker than you think. On this trip you wear long underwear to bed because you're dirty as hell and your legs will stick together otherwise. You keep lotion in your pocket because the combination of the cold water and the air dries…
I'll tell you a very short story that will explain how I know John was born to be a biologist. First off, he has a serious lust for knowledge, answers, information, and science in general. In fact, I think one of the reasons why John and I click is because I also am an abandoned…
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…
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…
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