Picture this: Two wildland firefighters on their day off, racing back upstream to beat the setting sun, with an 5 a.m. start time for the next day, dragging an inflatable kayak up the last shallow section in the dark, while only semi-ironically belting out...

Once upon a time, I thought about moving to the Pacific Northwest. While many people lament the weather, I'm someone who loves a lot of rain. That with the massive forests and it just looked like...