“…the river bends.”
“If my ship sails from sight, it does not mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.” John Enoch Powell
Reflections from the Office of Mountain Whitewater
The summer is what I look forward to. Sun shinning, green grass growing, flowers blooming, and most of all the river flowing. This is my second year at Mountain Whitewater and I couldn’t imagine a better place to work. Working here last season opened my eyes to how truly beautiful the Cache la Poudre River…
Messing around
“There’s nothing… absolutely nothing… half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats.” -Kenneth Grahme, The Wind in the Willows Tweet
“All things merge into one… and a river runs through it”
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops-under rocks are the words and some of the words are theirs.” -Norman Maclean (from a River Runs Through…
Life is like a river
“Rivers are magnets for the imagination, for conscious pondering and subconscious dreams, thrills and fears. People stare into the moving water, captivated, as they are when gazing into fire. What is it that draws and holds us? The rivers’ reflections of our lives and experiences are endless. The water calls up our own ambitions of…
Living on a raft…
It’s lovely to live on a raft and sometimes we’d have that whole river to ourselves for the longest time.” -Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain Tweet
Part of the Adventure is the uncertainty
“If you are starting out on an adventure and are already convinced that you will succeed, why even start?” -Sir Edmund Hillary Tweet
Decisions…
“Make the best decision you can and never look back, knowing that at the time you made the decision it was the best possible way to go.” – Mike Sanchez Tweet
Journey Around the World
Excerpt from Taking the Old Highway By Brad Modesitt. “This planet has- or rather had- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small…
The Mexican Fisherman
An American businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The Mexican replied “only…