Head on over to rowboatclassroom.org right now to follow the Adventure: Columbia River expedition live and participate with our adventure educators Leah Shamlian and Rachael Mallon. We could not be happier that these two ladies are part of the first all-female OAR Northwest team in our last five adventures. The crew departed from just above […]
Head on over to rowboatclassroom.org right now to follow the Adventure: Mississippi River expedition live and in real-time. The crew departed Mississippi River headwaters on September 2nd, 2014, and is rowing all ~2,400 miles of the “Father of Waters” from it’s source in Minnesota to its terminus at the Gulf of Mexico. They are delivering […]
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Jordan guest blogs for 1mississippi.org
Little did my parents know what developing an appreciation for classics like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn would inspire. Maybe it’s not an exact correlation – between reading about Tom and Huck’s adventures in grade school, and fifteen years later deciding to take a 29-foot rowboat with three friends across […]
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The JRH is coming home
This morning aboard the tugboat Sentry, Jordan & Markus and the whole tug boat crew finally made contact with the James Robert Hanssen. Today is a great day. This was no small feat, and was the product of intense collaboration between many faces and organizations. We’ll tell you all about them in our next post. In the […]
To the life raft! It had been close to 4 hours since we had capsized, Adam and I had been rowing since 2am with no rest, and none of us had eaten a full meal since 1900 hours the night before. It was time to rest, recoup, and come up with a plan of attack […]