Book Chapters being published!
Publishing my stories on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Messing-About-Boats-Chapter-ebook/dp/B006QIDUXE/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1325027834&sr=1-2
Here's the first installment: Sinyala Fault. I'm still trying to figure out this narrative arc thing. In the meantime, you can buy each of my stories at Amazon CHEAP! A buck and a half. Pass it along, review it, critique it. Hope you like it!
Jeffe, December 28, 2011
The Great Tuolumne River, California, spring high water 2011
Check out how big and fun the "T" can be! A jewel of a river, I grew up on it. My first class 4-5 in 1976. Great rapids, beautiful scenery, awesome hikes. I love this place.
Havasu Canyon Hike: What's it like from the boats?
Here's a quick video of what it looks like to hike from your boat in the mouth of Havasu up to the "Big Kids Pool".
Clogging In Grand Canyon(One way to keep warm during an April windstorm.)
It's not always stinkin' hot in the Grand Canyon. Here we are on an OARS/Dories trip at Rattlesnake beach, during an early April windstorm. Freezing our butts off. But (!), our three Suthun Gals make it happen with a bit of warm-up clogging! The hot toddies came later!
Lava Swim Team, Nov. 2011"It's not how you screw up. It's how you recover. Higher res version"
First video compilation of Dory flip and unflip before Son of Lava, higher res. 116 trips through the Canyon without a flip (tho I shoulda flipped a dozen times probably), then 2 in 2 years: both in the same place - Humpback Chub in Lava Falls. Funny how a feature you found interesting but not of consequence for 34 years all of a sudden becomes rather pivotal (pun intended). Kinda like a girlfriend I used to know.
Anasazi Magic published in October Boatman's Quarterly Review (BQR), two other stories win awards!
Ok. I get to brag once in a while. Better than whining when I keep getting rejections, no?
Go to the Grand Canyon River Guide's Association website and become a member to read the Boatman's Quarterly Review http://www.gcrg.org/bqr.php
It's a great way to read my article, not to mention support the activities of the GCRG. Or check the archives of this blog; "I Can't Make This Shit Up!" Anasazi of the Grand Canyon.
This story has been brewing in my spirit for over 15 years, tearing me up. After the marketing manager at OARS innocently requested an article on the Anasazi for the 2012 OARS catalogue, http://www.oars.com/, It came pouring out. Hope you like it.
As for the awards, I won the "Bad Trip, Gold Winner" prize at The Solas Awards Best Travel Writing site; http://www.besttravelwriting.com/btw-blog/great-stories/bad-trip-gold-winner-sinyala-fault/#comments
That story is also on my Home page: Sinyala Fault.
Another award from the Traveler's Tales site was the Editor's Choice for Best Travel Writing: http://www.besttravelwriting.com/btw-blog/great-stories/bad-trip-gold-winner-sinyala-fault/#comments for the tale: Beyond Thunder, which is also available on my site here: "Beyond Thunder"
Yippee. And I will be spending some time this winter self-publishing some of my stories on Amazon. Stay tuned. Its all starting to happen. As my colleague Bruce Keller likes to say about life and boating: "You know you're committed when your legs are up in the air".
Running Hance Rapids, Colorado River through Grand Canyon, in a Dory May 2011 Video
Doing the Andre Agassiz approach: grunt and groan your way past the Land of the Giants!
Grand Canyon Flood 1957
So here's part of Moulton Fulmer's 1958 81,000 cfs river trip in the Grand Canyon. See them pulling into Deer Creek Falls with their boats, and the infamous Granite Narrows (AKA Deer Creek Narrows), the narrowest part of the river at 75.5 feet (I helped measure it at its narrowest point), and how there was just no way to not get splatted on the wall! Worst spot on the river at high flows!
These shots are from Tom Martin's presentations on Youtube, linked below.
Call of the Canyon by Tom Martin - Part 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NbOkUcRtvA
Call of the Canyon by Tom Martin - Part 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AyP509dVEk
Matkatamiba in Flood
Go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWao-qUsWEU to see what a human butt-dam flood would look like on a normal day, from EXACTLY THE SAME PLACE!
