End of the Books

I finally shipped out the last of my whitewater guidebooks - to the MEC. When we brought the boxes full of books into our basement over 10 years ago I never expected that the books would out-last our whitewater paddling adventures and that we would move onto doing different things (like paragliding).

Missing this amazing time exploring rivers and creeks with good friends but it has been replaced by different views and adventures...

Whitewater in Southwest British Columbia - March 2007

Publications - but no Science Stuff

A skiing friend (from Florida of all places!) just sent an email congratulating me to my article published in the latest issue of the American Whitewater Journal. I had sent in the article for the Wilderness Issue a while ago, about our Tuya trip (one of the first multi-day trips for me back in 2001 or 2002, and more adventurous than most of the following trips since it is very rarely navigated) but hadn’t heard anything back. In the same issue appeared an article of a Vancouver friend and of three other people I know. Small world!

Looking through the list of contents makes me appreciate our home stomping grounds: 4 of the 10 stories are set in British Columbia (AW is based south of the border in the US)! Two of the trips are within (relatively) easy reach from Vancouver (Clendenning and Taseko-Chilcotin-Fraser). The latter does not require a plane shuttle and is of moderate difficulty (I highly recommend the upper part of the trip taking out just above Lillooeet or Gang Ranch – trip report here ).

Whitewater Guidebook Finished!

Yeaha, books are printed and done. Many years of paddling, exploring and taking notes and two years of writing, staring at maps, taking way points and re-checking access. There they are, colorful and neatly packaged, a big stack of boxes in our basement. Now I just have to get a bunch of stores to sell them.

More on the book on the Wetcoast Publishing website.