One summer day when Dan was an early teen, his dad took him to a river, stuck him in a whitewater kayak and told him to follow him down a river. It all started on that fateful day and Dan has spent much of his life sitting in a boat on a river since then. This has taken him to explore the rivers in the Southwest US, guiding in Colorado and South America, starting kayak clubs when his school did not have one, and now exploring the creeks and rivers of Alaska. Dan cares about making people feel safe, informed, and prepared in order to maximize a rivers fun potential and to help others pursue their own river journeys. While he no longer pursues charging class V lines, you might see him get a packraft up on a precipitous edge while snapping into an eddy in a class II rapid, or at least trying to. Favorite rivers: Green River, Colorado River, Bull River, Wells Creek, Arkansas River, South Fork of the American, Rio Liucura, Rio Palguin.