A diversion dam on the Fremont River near Hanksville, Utah. Henry Mountains
Today we get officially underway. Frank’s wife Georgie dropped him off around 9 a.m. As we began the great adventure, she handed us a Ziplock bag full of homemade chocolate chip cookies.
View of the Escalante River, from the Kiva Koffeehouse near Boulder, Utah
This is the third in a series of dispatches from Clay Jenkinson chronicling his recent journey with two compatriots following the Colorado River and neighboring region. The day was spent in and around Boulder, Utah (population, 248; elevation 6700’).
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Dennis and I left Vail, Colorado, at 9:30 a.m. We drove Interstate 70 to Grand Junction, where Dennis wanted some healthy groceries. I’m from North Dakota — the land of Velveeta — so I am just along for the ride. Dennis and I have known each other for 25 years and our life dreams have found their confluence in Listening to America.
This is the first in a series of about a dozen dispatches from Clay Jenkinson we’ll publish over the next several weeks chronicling his recent journey following the Colorado River and neighboring region.
A recent journey following the Colorado River has Clay and his colleagues tracing a trail first mapped by the great American explorer and scientist John Wesley Powell between 1869 and 1875.
Clay Jenkinson's Mom

Mother’s Day

My mother has been dead for five years now. She died at 86, without spending a single night in a hospital.
In the harsh conditions of the Arctic, Dr. Grant Zazula leads an ongoing race against time and nature to save the rich paleontological treasures relinquished by thawing permafrost.…
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book cover: The Lance and The Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull
The Lance and The Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull by Robert M. Utley, first published in 1994. Bismarck, N.D. — I’m reading a biography of Sitting Bull (1831 – 1890).…
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Browning, Mont. — Wandering about what is called the “Hi-Line,” U.S. 2 and the tracks of the Great Northern Railway, I came upon this obelisk monument to Lewis and Clark.
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Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark
Gary Moulton edited a definitive thirteen volume set of the Lewis and Clark expedition journals. Over the Christmas holidays, because I was alone this year, I decided to read all the journals of Lewis and Clark, John Ordway, and Patrick Gass for the return journey of the Corps of Discovery, from March 23 to September 23, 1806.…
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