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Do The Extraordinary: 2013-12-29
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Wednesday, January 1, 2014. One of my favorite activities is to spend time in southern Utah with my family camping, Jeeping, hiking, or rafting. One of my other favorite activities is to study from and grow my library of personal development and business books. Recently I found a book entitled, “The Wisdom of Wilderness” by Gerald G. May. The author recounts many of the lessons learned while camping alone. I was actually quite surprised how hard it was to get used to the silence. It took me almost a ...
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Do The Extraordinary: 2011-12-25
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Thursday, December 29, 2011. Salt Creek Canyon Backpacking- Canyonlands National Park, April 2011. Hiking Salt Creek Canyon, Canyonlands National Park. April 18-23, 2011. Day One: Travel from Salt Lake City and shuttle to Cathedral Butte Trailhead. We traveled from Salt Lake City to the Canyonlands Visitor’s Center in the Needles District on Monday. We arrived about ½ an hour after the Backcountry Desk had closed, but the main visitor’s center was still open. Arriving at Cathedral Butte, we found about 4...
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Life Lessons From the River: Breathe When There's Daylight
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Life Lessons From the River. Reflections on 30 years of rafting the premier rivers of the West. Sunday, February 26, 2012. Breathe When There's Daylight. Whenever we go rafting and have completed the rigging of the boats and everyone is ready to go, we take the time to go over the safety lecture. There are many safety measures that are important to remember. So repetition is a good thing. In the stress of an emergency moment it may be difficult to remember what to do. What most people do not realize unti...
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Life Lessons From the River: Know Your Limitations
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Life Lessons From the River. Reflections on 30 years of rafting the premier rivers of the West. Sunday, January 29, 2012. I started river rafting when I was 14 years old. I had the opportunity to join my dad on a Sierra Club trip he was leading in Grand Canyon with a commercial river company named Wilderness World. It was the first year the Sierra Club had changed their river trip policy to not use commercial companies that used motors. Wilderness World used oar power, no motors. My dad was teaching my b...
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Life Lessons From the River: June 2012
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Life Lessons From the River. Reflections on 30 years of rafting the premier rivers of the West. Monday, June 11, 2012. A Near Disaster in Disaster Falls. Most people do not realize that Major Powell and his crew started their first exploration of Grand Canyon way up in Wyoming on the Green River, which is a major tributary of the Colorado River. So back to Disaster Falls on the Green River. The most difficult thing about Disaster Falls in my opinion is all the current constricts down into a smaller c...
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Life Lessons From the River: February 2012
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Life Lessons From the River. Reflections on 30 years of rafting the premier rivers of the West. Sunday, February 26, 2012. Breathe When There's Daylight. Whenever we go rafting and have completed the rigging of the boats and everyone is ready to go, we take the time to go over the safety lecture. There are many safety measures that are important to remember. So repetition is a good thing. In the stress of an emergency moment it may be difficult to remember what to do. What most people do not realize unti...
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Life Lessons From the River: Just Like The Chinese Dog Leg
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Life Lessons From the River. Reflections on 30 years of rafting the premier rivers of the West. Friday, January 13, 2012. Just Like The Chinese Dog Leg. If you can picture a Letter “S” laid out in front of you and you approach it from the bottom of the “S” and work your way to the top. That’s the direction this rapid would take. A few years later we were rafting the Klamath River in northern California. None of us had run the river before and we had a basic idea about what to expect. My dad and I...So I ...
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Life Lessons From the River: Life In-Between
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Life Lessons From the River. Reflections on 30 years of rafting the premier rivers of the West. Friday, December 20, 2013. When I first started rafting, it was all about the rapids. The flat water in-between was something I would just sort of endure. Then I started to pay more attention to the scenery and characteristics of the canyons between the rapids. In some cases there was a lot of “between the rapids” when we would go miles and sometimes days without a rapid. Frequently while meandering the canyon...
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Life Lessons From the River: October 2014
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Life Lessons From the River. Reflections on 30 years of rafting the premier rivers of the West. Friday, October 10, 2014. Forever Eddy - Sometimes We Fight! In the Kenny Loggins song, “Don’t Fight It” the chorus says, “Don’t fight it, it’ll do your heart so good.” Sometimes we need to fight. Sometimes we need to stop fighting by letting go or by compromise. So Kenny gives us good advice for certain situations. One of those legendary eddies is affectionately called “Forever Eddy.” It’...This rapid fo...
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Life Lessons From the River: October 2012
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Life Lessons From the River. Reflections on 30 years of rafting the premier rivers of the West. Friday, October 12, 2012. Or We Don't Go. I was recently speaking with a client who I’m helping get his new business designed and up and running. He “dropped the bomb” saying that he was down to his last $10 and his credit cards were maxed out. How would you respond to that kind of situation? So you might be wondering how this fits into a lesson from my river rafting experiences. So these spaces are in some ca...