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One man's profound story of<br />
hiking the Salmon River's watershed<br />
from origin to ocean<br />
IT ALL STARTED WITH A CRAZY QUESTION. Could I find the headwaters of the river I’ve lived next<br />
to for six years and walk from there to the sea?<br />
The Salmon River is the perfect playground for exploration as it curls up against the coast range in a thirtymile<br />
long question mark, forming one of the coast’s shortest river systems. I became acquainted with it by<br />
poring over maps and satellite photos and interviewing hunters, loggers and agency personnel in the area. It<br />
took three tries before I reached its source, on the side of Saddle Bag Mountain.<br />
I was accompanied on different legs of this four-day adventure by Scotty Evens, an ex-river guide and hunter;<br />
Matt Delaney, a forester; Katie Brem, a native plant specialist; Paul Engelmeyer and a coastal lands conservation<br />
expert; Rob Hollingsworth, chiropractor and expedition planner; and videographer, Ian Hietz. The<br />
following pages tell the story of our watershed expedition in journal entries and photographs. They are also<br />
a biography and tribute to the living system we call a watershed.<br />
written and photographed<br />
by<br />
Duncan Berry
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