Author ngottlieb
I haven’t spent much time on the beach and I haven’t been to California since I was 10, but after this short visit, I think I’ll be back again soon. Next time someone asks me how to train for the Stikine,… Continue Reading →
Off in the haze of the ever-shrinking Lake Bonneville (i.e. the Great Salt Lake), just west of Ogden, lies Antelope Island, a Utah state park home to a handful of bison, well-preserved shorelines, and some very old rock. It’s also home… Continue Reading →
Back when we moved to Utah (just over a year ago), we thought we could continue to fashion ourselves “whitewater kayakers” while living in the desert. So, we drove. A lot. Around Utah, throughout Idaho and Wyoming, and even all… Continue Reading →
Every place has that thing that tourists always do and locals only do when they’ve got friends visiting. In New York, it’s the Empire State building. In Logan, UT, it’s hiking to the Wind Cave. After more than a year… Continue Reading →
We’ve been trying to visit a lot of new places in Utah this fall since we’ll only be living here for at most another year, and while it’s hard not to go to the same places over and over again… Continue Reading →
The Salmon River drainage in Idaho is home to some of the most classic multi-day rivers in the country, if not the world. The Middle Fork and the Main are permitted sections of river with phenomenal class III-IV whitewater, beautiful… Continue Reading →
I’m not really good enough at skiing to warrant blogging about it, but sometimes I ski with people who are, so here goes. December sucked. It was too cold and icy to do anything at all. Seriously, I wished I had… Continue Reading →
188 days on the water 82 sections of river 3 countries 11 US states 61 New Haven laps 13 Vermont Weekly Whitewater Beer Series Races 5 published pieces (for which I was paid — a couple more pro bono in… Continue Reading →
Outside Middlebury, VT tucked away just beyond the prying eyes of passing leef peepers lies one of the most dramatic bedrock river gorges in the state. Its sculpted corridor houses four back-to-back waterfalls, the final two hidden beneath overhanging walls… Continue Reading →
For those who aren’t members of the Vermont Paddler’s Club, below is an article I wrote for their yearly publication about the Otter Creek Race Series I started this summer. Arriving in Vermont in February after three months paddling in… Continue Reading →