For those of us whose spirits would wither away without wild country in which to renew ourselves, Jimmy Carter’s greatest legacy is to be found in the rivers that remain free-flowing and the great swaths of protected Alaska land that allow the caribou and grizzly to roam…
Born to Paddle
Several families relate the joys of connecting to Nature via paddling. Canyon and Forest Woodward’s earliest days of paddling are recounted…
A Storm To Remember
A September canoe trip on the Bowron Lakes of British Columbia. Four adults, a two-year old and… well, it wouldn’t be as interesting a story if everything had gone as planned and the rain and wind hadn’t held a big party on the lakes that week…
Circling Back
In 1970, Doug Woodward paddled his homemade kayak through the Grand Canyon. Though he continued to run rivers over the next four decades, he never expected to feel the whitewater of the Colorado again. His son Forest would change that…
Paddling for Deliverance
“James Dickey changed my life. He never knew that. And at the time, I didn’t even know it myself. But as surely as Dickey could put swashbucking thoughts to paper and then morph them into his own persona, his words also became a part of who I was. I met him only once. It was on a crisp autumn evening…”
