The weather was pretty daunting, but we did this paddle anyway. The Kankakee River was high, fast and parts had my adrenaline running. There is a narrow stretch where the ripples seemed to approach Class II. The limestone dells were a site to see and the islands were large and would have been fun to [...]
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Saving the Verde River
I haven’t lived in the southwest for nearly 15 years. When I had lived in Southern California, the drought conditions were not nearly as bad as they are now. Rachael and I learned quite a lot about the struggle the southwest is having with water when we spent our first winter in Prescott, AZ this [...]


