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Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Umatilla River

The Umatilla is the backyard run for much of SE Washington and NE Oregon. It flows right through downtown Pendleton, past the rodeo grounds, and offers a great early morning or after-work run with a bit of surfing, a bit of floating, and some waving to the people on the bridges. The river is generally […]

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Palouse A Goose!

I know school is supposed to be all about studying in the library until the wee hours of the morning, but there’s got to be some flexibility in that. I found some of that flexibility mid-week, as the Palouse, a river that rarely has any water, rose to about 800 cfs. Most years there are […]

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Back from the Owyhee

No, I haven’t dropped off the face of the earth, last week I did come pretty close though. Perched down in the bottom right hand corner of Oregon is a small river that flows out of Nevada, through Oregon, and into the Snake in Idaho, the Owyhee. The closest major town to the river is […]

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

East Fork of the Lewis River

Another local run down! Photos can be found HERE.
Dave, Mike, Josh and I headed over to the East Fork of the Lewis River this morning for a quick run. We shot some photos at Sunset Falls, Screaming Left, and Horseshoe Falls, check them out. More of an update coming soon (along with more pictures).

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Sandy River Gorge

As usual, you can get straight to the photos HERE.
These photos from a day spent exploring the Sandy River Gorge are the beginnings of a project for American Whitewater. The plan is to paddle as many of the local Portland runs and take photographs with the  intention of creating an online river guide similar […]

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

The Coldest Salmon Trip Ever

Just back from 4 days freezing my butt off on the lower Salmon river between Pine Bar and Heller Bar on the Snake. Images, as usual, can be found HERE. Sorry there aren’t more, I spent most of my time trying to keep people from dying of hypothermia.
We began the trip on Saturday morning with […]

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Blue Mountain Adventuring

Check it out HERE for some photos from a day of adventuring in Oregon and Washington’s Blue Mountains.
For more details on a day of exploring continue below.
At 12:30 on a lovely friday afternoon that brought the first rain of the year to Walla Walla, Oliver Wood, Sophie Davis, Lindsay Cameron and I set off up […]

Monday, September 14th, 2009

9 Months of Update

Finally back to the world of internet, procrastination, classes, and taking pictures! Photos from the past 9 months accessible in a gallery HERE.
A brief update on happenings in the photographic interests of Benny Boots-
Returning from Semester in the West I was scared into hiding in the coast range west of Portland by incredible amounts of […]

Monday, December 1st, 2008

SITW- Heading Home

As usual- for pictures you can click HERE
For a bright flash of light considering climate change- written on the Tejon Ranch, grass fed and all organic, continue below…
The Last Generation
Doug McDaniel’s boots rest together at the foot of a stump, his faded blue jeans and white striped shirt juxtaposed against the background of dense Ponderosa […]

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

SITW- Lichty Center and El Coronado Ranch

If you want pictures from the last few days, click HERE.
A brief update-
We spent the last few days with author Sharman Apt Russel at the Lichty Center near Cliff NM. The Lichty Center is part of the Nature Conservancy’s Gila River Farm, 160 acres of what was a farm and ranch, but is now […]