Summer/Fall 2012

CONTENTS

Essays JENNA McCOY Cinder and Snow (Ridge to River Contest Winner)

RICK MICK All You Can Eat (Ridge to River Honorable Mention)

LAURIE WEED Riverdance (Ridge to River Honorable Mention) 36 CHERYL MERRILL In the Paw Prints of Lions

JON MICELER On the Importance of George B. Schaller

CHARLOTTE HELSTON Fisherwoman

THORPE MOECKEL Dark April Light

Photo Essay KLAUS KRANEBITTER and MATTHIAS TROTTMAN

Photography SHEA MACK 5/Back CHERYLL MERRILL 42 JON MICELER 58 CHARLOTTE HELSTON 65

Cover photograph and this page by Klaus Kranebitter (Switzerland)

CHRISTOPHER MARTIN Formed by Water

Summer/Fall 2012

Published on Jul 6, 2012

Adventum Magazine

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In This Issue: 2nd annual Ridge to River Contest winner revealed! Plus, explore whitewater paddling culture in Virginia with Thorpe Moeckel, fishing (for the first time) in Laos with Charlotte Helston, a pilgrimage to Thoreau’s Walden with Christopher Martin, and take a teak-hulled riverboat down the Nam Ou with Laurie Weed. Also, tag along with Rick Mick as he takes on Perkins’ Tremendous Twelve and an ultra-marathon in the Bighorn Mountains, Cheryl Merrill shows us what Game Ranger Training is like in Africa, Klaus Kranebitter wows again with his photography from a climbing trip in Switzerland, and Jon Miceler reveals what it was like to trek through the Himalayan jungle with the world’s greatest wildlife biologist, Dr. George B. Schaller. This issue is not only packed with the best outdoor writing, but also groundbreaking photography and haiku.

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