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Death from Below

Death from Below
Most mornings, there is not much variance from routine—coffee, shower, walk the dog and so on. However, waking up on the banks of a New Zealand backcountry river is adequate cause for disruption, and the temptation of the camp pool was too sweet for Jack Scott to resist. Coffee could wait. Photo: Jeff Forsee

Death from below on Oregon’s Metolius River. Redside trout gorge on green drakes during the afternoon hatch. Photo: Arian Stevens

Death from below on Oregon’s Metolius River. Redside trout gorge on green drakes during the afternoon hatch. Photo: Arian Stevens

  There is something sacred about a canoe. Not many aspects of contemporary life are safe from society’s relentless march toward modernity, but this small craft with its innate grace has become a defiant symbol, resisting change and drawing us back to simpler times. Many say there is not a more honest way to experience a river. Kate Sherin does just that, all smiles while searching for salmon on Quebec’s Bonaventure River. Photo: Scotty Sherin

There is something sacred about a canoe. Not many aspects of contemporary life are safe from society’s relentless march toward modernity, but this small craft with its innate grace has become a defiant symbol, resisting change and drawing us back to simpler times. Many say there is not a more honest way to experience a river. Kate Sherin does just that, all smiles while searching for salmon on Quebec’s Bonaventure River. Photo: Scotty Sherin

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