I want to send you all a quick update that the group has crossed into Arizona. Yesterday they toured Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell to learn more about water infrastructure and they will be spending the next few days with Rocky Mountain Seed......Read More
One of my favorite parts of leading courses with Dragons is our faith in a flexible itinerary. The belief that opportunities for greater depth and learning sometimes arise spontaneously and should not be sacrificed in the name of a more rigid plan......Read More
Mare performing “kulning,” a kind of Swedish yodel, on a hike at Earth Mountain....Read More
A few photos from our last expedition… As we start to head south into Arizona, we have been thinking about how grateful we are for the last few weeks of quiet and reflection in these desert canyons. Our time in Utah has been brief, but our......Read More
The thing that haunts me are the handprints. Small, white, they stick on sandstone walls, their owners reaching out from within. Within a different time and space, yet their hands remain, painted onto the landscape, dry on my own hands as I paddle......Read More
I would be lying if I said it was the first time I saw a mountainside marked in gold a forest full of birdsong reduced to a memory in its place are its blackened remnants I cant count on my fingers how many times I’ve seen the sun rise red or......Read More
Every crevice of this canyon is a ruin of a life once lived. Lives lived in sacred agreements to this land and all that tread across it. The visible ruins of those people are merely a shell of their being, as is a body a shell to one’s person.......Read More
On one of our last nights in Grand Gulch, Jeff and Keshet gave us some devastating news from the outside world (received by their sat phone). The North Inlet of Rocky Mountain National Park has been burning since October 14th. The beautiful, diverse......Read More
How to find water in the desert To find water in the desert, Surrender yourself and run, Braids swinging at your back. Surrender to the cool damp air, To the willows brushing between your legs, To the tamarisk tangled in your hair. Let your knees......Read More
Dear Friends and Family, I’m happy to report the group is safely back in service after finishing their big wilderness expedition floating down the San Juan River and then hiking up Grand Gulch. They have just arrived in the small town of......Read More
The Spanish Peaks rise above the desert of southern Colorado, southeast of the rolling Sangre de Cristo range we’ve been circling the past few weeks from our trek in the Rio Grande National Forest, to our time at Mission Wolf, and out to the sand......Read More
Dear Friends and Family, I’ve just returned from a week in the desert and spending some time with the group. When I last left them on the slickrock rim of Grand Gulch they were all in high spirits and ready to begin their next big multi-day......Read More
Between the fights over the music and Kevin driving too slowly the car rides are interesting to say the least. The terrain and environment around us is largely calm and still. Grand mountains bordering desert, rocks, and trees dominate our line of......Read More
Hello, We’ve been chasing the sun the last few days. The winter winds clip close at our heels and bites at my fingertips every morning when I sit to thaw by the fire. It’s a blessing when the sun peaks over the soft heads of the Sangre......Read More
