After returning from teaching 8 day raft training trip on the surprising and magnificent Shoalhaven River with the OEG staff I thought it was time to share the last chapter of the expedition I did with 7 other women in January/February this year.
Navigating on a northwesterly bearing we reached the edge of the table land [...]

These last three months have been big for me. The last time I was in the Pacific Northwest touring around it was with my good friend Stephen Forster. Stephen passed away this year on the North Fork Payette in Idaho, so going back up the PNW was a very bittersweet thing for me.
The first week [...]

headwater |ˈhedˌwôtər; -ˌwätər|
noun (usu. headwaters)
A tributary stream of a river close to
 or forming part of its source.
We paddled the headwaters of the South Fork of the Yuba River. The Yuba River is a major tributary of the Feather, 1/3 of its flow, which eventual joins with the mighty Sacramento. The Yuba River has three [...]

After getting home form Austria I had few days to spend back home before heading back out to Italy. Luckily the snowpack this year has been high and it had rained a bit even in the high altitudes. One day it has been just enough rain and high enough temperatures to finally get some juice [...]

Gazing at a map of California and its mighty San Joaquin Valley, one would expect the namesake San Joaquin River to be a prominent feature on the landscape. Yet waking up to peacocks in a riverside campground on the ever-expanding urban sprawl of Fresno, the river is merely a glorified trickle, flowing now only because [...]