HeyJaredFluvial Friend
all-around river enthusiast crafting outdoor writing from the great indoors // logo by Ash Matelski
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The Front Porch (opens the original)
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I originally wrote this with a melody, the first and only song I’ve ever penned. I can only strum three and a half chords on the guitar, so I realized my lyrics are best shared as poems (thanks, Taylor Swift!)I wrote most of this in the Grand Canyon, a place recently battered by monsoon-induced flash floods near the scar of the Dragon Bravo Fire. Grand Canyon, a place imbedded in my bones.Grand Canyon, a region beyond the sandstone walls.Grand Canyon, a home with my favorite front porch: Kane Ra
Necessities (opens the original)
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Happy Friday! I’ve been preparing for an upcoming river trip on the Middle Fork of the Salmon, where friends and family from across my boating career will coalesce for some extreme low-water. We’ll make it a blast, regardless of what gets thrown at us. That’s the best part of river trips: you have to keep going downstream. Even the preparation phase invigorates me. It’s been a few months since I felt the oars flex between my hands while pushing into the deep. Guided by the Pacific Northwest, I’v
The Ten-Minute Tern (opens the original)
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All rivers inspire me, but those in the Inland Northwest are my truest muse. Five years ago, stumbling out of the pandemic, I joined a group of writers for an immersive workshop through Freeflow Institute on the Blackfoot River. We traveled through the ancestral homelands of the Blackfeet. Chris La Tray, a Métis storyteller and former Montana Poet Laureate, created an environment where I could write without judgement and reflect on my changing role in a changing West. My initial (albeit loose) w
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