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 Donny O’Neill Neil Lareau says he hasn’t seen any precipitation in the Sierra Nevada, where he lives, since he went skiing on Cinco de Mayo. It’s July now, with a series of heatwaves billowing across the West and Dr. Neil Lareau, an atmospheric...
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...
