The Yampa: dangerous and boring, threatening and welcoming, a connector and a destroyer. Most of all, it is life.
During the first week of June, in 2023, we drove ourselves to Vernal, Utah, loaded ourselves into a van with a few other brave souls, and, with the watchful guidance of an amazing team from Oars, we dropped into the raging Yampa River. Like rafting the Main Salmon many years ago, this river adventure changed our world, blew our minds, healed our souls. We cried when we were done - on the way back - at the fleeting bigness of the spring runoff, the overwhelm of having to return to our busy, real lives, and at having to say goodbye to the wild, quiet, unique, beauty of the canyon. I cried, too, knowing that our years together as a family were as fleeting as the winter snow, the spring runoff, the canyon rainbow. And this....this trip was something so special, so important. We were all struggling, fighting to write each and every second into our memories. Don't forget! This feeling, this togetherness, this version of us! Take it with you. Make you better. The ...
