Contributor
Exploration
Whitewater kayaker Owen Doyle reflects on a one-day descent of Bull Lake Creek. What begins as a technical challenge becomes a “spirit quest,” pushing him beyond physical limits into a deeper relationship with the river—where focus, fear, and flow converge.
Dispatch
A return to the Nooksack River becomes a visceral meditation on brotherhood, memory, and change. Moving through cold water and shifting banks, two brothers confront fear, connection, and meaning—learning that like fire, what matters most must be tended to stay alive.
Exploration · Culture
Episode 4 of Team Scorch crews spans rivers of Washington to Pakistan in Yak Hard or Else. What unfolds as stacked, high-consequence kayaking becomes something deeper—framed through anthropology, where Class V+ rivers blur into ritual, and risk.
Exploration
Environment
Recent observations in streamflow data show an increased frequency of flash flooding in the Middle Fork Nooksack Drainage.
Culture
The river is our connection to life, death and rebirth in the world's current incarnation.
Exploration · film
Environment
Events · Environment
Tainted Gold, is a community film screening and conversation centered on environmental justice struggles and river-based ways of life in Ecuador’s Napo River Basin.
Reviews
Reviews
Exploration · RIVERS Expedition
Films, field dispatches, and long-form stories from rivers worldwide.