Photos by Summer Doss My love affair with the Dolores River began in 2019. It was my first season as a river guide and I had just finished derigging a trip when another guide told me, “The Dolores is running and I know you’re free this week. Let’s go.” We...
Photo by Adam Clark Jumping into climate conversations can feel a bit like having a go at a new sport. It’s scary, uncomfortable, and uncertain. But it’s also worth it. Sometime late in the summer of 2012, I sat in a packraft, teetering through rolling...
A latine experience on an all-white Grand Canyon rafting trip Renewable energy is always brought up while discussing the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon. There are loads of books and podcasts about why the “Colorado River Compact” is a good idea, a...
Photo by Seebany Datta-Barua Antarctica is the world’s largest ice sheet, spanning an area comparable to the entire United States reaching a staggering thickness of up to 3 miles at its center. Consequently, visitors to the South Pole often experience altitude...
After seeing the cherry red stain on the slip of pH paper I held between my tingling fingers, no one else in my group of scientists and adventurers volunteered to touch the water at our feet. I was straddling a small trickle bubbling out of the tundra and...
Photo by Jeff Engerbretson As climate advocates and people who love to recreate outdoors, it’s natural to feel like we could be doing something more to protect the places we love. We access trailheads by car, ride in planes and we might even hop on a snowmobile to...
