Our Most Valuable Resource Sits Here

Scott Thompson (Minturn Anglers guide) with a mini-steel grip and grin from a recent trip to Western NY.  Upon photo review, a more powerful message from above far outweighs the grip and grin.

Right place.  Right time.

KAYAKING THE GREAT BEAR, a Search for Wilderness

After discussing the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline--which would carry bitumen from Alberta's tar sands to the Great Bear rainforest of northern British Columbia, three friends decided to go see the area for themselves. Having heard that hidden in the rainforest which surrounds the twisting pacific channels are tiny abandoned trappers' cabins, the group packed everything they would need for eight days into their kayaks and headed out into the world's largest temperate rainforest in search of something which is becoming increasingly rare: wilderness.