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Josh Mahan

Josh first sat solo at the oars of a cat boat in Cataract Canyon at the age of 15. He hasn’t stopped running wilderness rivers since. Along the way he’s guided clients down 14,000 miles of river from Alaska to California. But his true passion is for Rocky Mountain rivers, where he still guides Lochsa and Salmon trips. Josh is captivated by canyon country, though, and has explored the dry and wet canyons of southern Utah extensively
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Mike Roselle

Mike Roselle has been running rivers from Alaska to Borneo since 1979. He pens a regular environmental column for Lowbagger.org, an online environmental journal he publishes. He’s also one of the founders of Earth First!, the Rainforest Action Network, and the Ruckus Society. Mike worked in Washington D.C. for a decade on environmental issues . . .
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Jen Sauer

Jennifer Sauer is a Montana blonde with Colorado roots who resides in Missoula where she works as a wordsmith and trivia whiz. On powder days, you can find her at Snowbowl. On sunny days, you can find her outside.

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Expedition members joining us along the river
 

Bob Scholl

Born in Fairfield, Connecticut, Bob first discovered the lure of the Rocky Mountain West in 1983 when he enrolled at the University of Montana to pursue a degree in fisheries biology. Though the biology career crashed in a calculus haze, the love of the outdoors gained wings and took off through rafting rivers in Western Montana and llama packing in Wyoming's Wind River Mountains . . . MORE

 

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John Weisheit

John Weisheit is the conservation director of Living Rivers and the Colorado Riverkeeper. For nearly three decades, John has been a commercial river guide on the Colorado River and its many tributaries. He has a long history working to mobilize people for its protection, first as founder of  Colorado Plateau River Guides, then founder of the Glen Canyon Group of the Sierra Club, as well as Living Rivers. In 2003 he was selected to be the
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Marilyn Olsen


Marilyn Olsen

Marilyn Olsen has explored wilderness from the Everglades to Alaska, from Africa to the Arizona desert. She is a registered nurse with expertise in wilderness medicine. She is a former trip leader for the University of Montana's "Wilderness and Civilization" program, and led canoe trips on Montana's wild and scenic upper Missouri River, as well as various backpack treks. An experienced wilderness advocate, Marilyn's efforts in conservation education for young people are particularly innovative . . . MORE



 
Rod Nash


Roderick F. Nash Ph. D.

Roderick Nash is considered America's foremost wilderness historian. He is regarded as a national leader in the field of environmental history and management and environmental education. Among his numerous books and over 150 essays, Professor Roderick Frazier Nash is best known for Wilderness and the American Mind, which has received many reprintings, revised editions, and foreign translations.
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Howie Wolke

Howie Wolke has been working to restore Glen Canyon since becoming involved with environmental politics over thirty years ago. Howie guides clients on backpacking adventures in the canyon country of Escalante, and throughout the West, with Big Wild Adventures, a company he runs with his wife, Marilyn, that specializes in promoting wilderness.After leading over 400 wilderness treks nobody knows the wilderness like Howie. He has written two books on wildland conservation, including the Big Outside (co-authored with Dave Foreman), . . . MORE

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Michael Donnelly

Born and raised in Flint, MI, Michael Donnelly grew up canoeing the AuSable and Rifle Rivers and sailing the lakes of NE Michigan. His favorite activity is hiking to mountain lakes for a cool swim. He plans to join the relatively smooth Green River stretch from Green River UT to the Colorado River. After decades in the Pacific Northwest, Michael is getting around to exploring the canyonlands of SE Utah, with a goal joining in with
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