Having wrapped up a great summer guiding season on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, It was great to get back into my drysuit (newly repaired thanks to Kokatat) and start off the fall teaching season. We had 11 students for the SRT with a variety of backgrounds, but primarily fire personnell. Weather cooperated...

Learning to read water is much like learning to read. First you have to know your A,B,C's. Next, you start putting together sounds, and soon your first small words. Then come bigger words, sentences, phrases, paragraphs, and finally complete books. It takes time to become profiecint at reading water, just as it does in reading...