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Ghosts of Glen Canyon
Gus Scott with his father, Gus Scott Sr., 1959. Kane Creek. Photo via Gus Scott (and shared on Tom Martin’s Facebook tribute.)
For almost a decade, I’ve been following ghosts through Glen Canyon. My backcountry travels are guided not by de...
So Long Seldom Seen
“I’m so sorry.”
This is never a promising intro to a text early in the morning. I hesitated to look. Ken Sleight, aged 97, had died in his sleep. Throughout the day, I received more messages about Sleight.
Although I was sad to hear of h...
Re-Routing
On the morning of Glen Canyon Backcountry Club’s first-ever guided backpacking trip, a hefty monsoonal storm cell parked itself exactly over our proposed route. In the hour before meeting our client, I sat on the floor surrounded by maps. A...
The Gift of New Footsteps
Today, Glen Canyon Backcountry Club launches our first guided backpacking trip in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. In total, the permit process took about a year; however, this is the culmination of a decade of deeply exploring...
Welcome to the Desert Circus
Exactly where I did not want to be.
When I returned to the world of cell service on August 30, there was a chain of text messages waiting. Each text asked if Aaron and I were okay. “Are you guys in the Grand Canyon?” We had not heard the n...
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➸Wild words from the \ud83e\udd0e of the Colorado River Watershed ➸Author: Path of Light—A Walk Through Colliding Legacies of Glen Canyon ➸Next: Riverside~a Colorado River book (Torrey House Press ‘27) ➸Desert Maverick (Lyons Press ‘28)
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