H20 Notes

November 3, 2020 0

Data

On the river trail yesterday, a shiny U.S. Geological Survey stream gauge was hard at work among the rocks. New since September, the gauge is likely reading discharge (quantity of flow), water temperature, and water level. This one's not online yet, but it's sure to be gathering data every fifteen minutes. [...]
September 14, 2020 6

Options

"Failure is not an option," words famously uttered by Ed Harris as NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz in the 1995 movie Apollo 13, weren't really his. Instead, they were coined during the film's creative process. [...]
June 21, 2020 2

Fragments

River guides learn to take feedback from the water itself, sensing when we've caught the right current. Slamming a boulder or rock wall or ending up on a slow boat to nowhere gives feedback in real time. It's not always learn or die––but it's certainly learn or suffer long timeouts in eddies or slave-rowing against the wind. [...]
March 9, 2020 0

Drafting

Out my window: Mojave desert bajadas and mountains in sun and heat. In my apartment: a cool refuge. On my [...]
June 19, 2017 0

Choices

At five a.m. in our landlocked valley, cauliflower heads of unexpected thunderheads rise beyond the woods to [...]
June 6, 2017 0

Power

(Rebecca Solnit’s brilliant take on The Loneliness of Donald Trump inspired my own bit of myth [...]
April 8, 2017 0

Rough

(or How Not to Let a Little Rough Going Get You Down) Here in Central Oregon, there are rough-legged hawks, [...]

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