N. Rakha, Colorado River Mile 134.5. Tapeats Creek. On Sunday, April 14th, the Oregonian will publish an article I wrote about Kaitlin Kenny, the young woman who drowned in the Colorado River while on a 29-day river trip though the Grand Canyon. I first wrote about Kaitlin on January 16th,… Read More
My experiences related to the canyon have been on the order of a spiritual awakening which has left me as porous as the canyon’s sedimentary strata, where rain water cleaves and carves and emerges later as beautiful clear springs. I take power naps. Total shutdowns that last twenty minutes—max. I… Read More
“It’s a steep learning curve out here in the Grand Canyon. The elements are fast teachers that can be very unforgiving.” Kaitlin Kenney, Day 8-River Journal Newspapers reported this week that the body retrieved recently from the Colorado River was Kaitlin Kenney. She was found by rafters 30 miles downstream… Read More
This morning I told the world a secret. It has been something I have been carrying inside of me for 16 years, and has only come out now because of my month in the canyon. While there I wrote about many things: the weather, the beauty, the geology, the people,… Read More
I am in a train going south from Seattle, Washington to Oregon, and this is what I see. Stacks of lumber and lines of trucks. Piles of rebar and blocks of concrete. Downed trees and over-grown blackberries. Water slick roads. Break lights. Trash. Rain. It was sunny in Seattle when… Read More
Kaitlin Kenney prior to running Hermit on her birthday, January 6, 2013. © Sophie Danison 2013 The night before I hiked into the Grand Canyon I was contacted by a friend of Kaitlin Kenney’s. He had read an essay I had written about Kaitlin entitled The Way We Die. Kaitlin had gone… Read More