About Us

 My Wife and I live in the Beauty of Colorado's Front Range. We met as we were both working with troubled youth in the wilderness therapy program at Anasazi Foundation. After she gave me the wrong phone number and we walking together for a week in the desert we got married in the Gilbert Arizona Temple. We decided to settle down in Colorado to help out whom ever we could as we are both outdoor enthusiasts and love wilderness survival.

Years ago I discovered that I am truly happy if I am able to do 3 things: Be Outside with great people, Craft or Make thing with my Hands, and Teach! Thus Rivers and Coasts Kayaks is a little hobby that is meant to perpetuate happiness.  

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We are a few people who love teaching about the outdoors and who are dedicated to the education of primitive and traditional skills as well as the history that surrounds them. For "primitive skills are our shared inheritance. It is the shared thread which links us to our prehistory and binds us together as human beings." -Steve Watts

Our main purpose is to learn from those who know, share what we know, and gain friends. Our focused is on the basic skills and knowledge that has made us who we are today for the only way we have advanced so far is by knowing the past but desiring the future. 
Many times the old legends say it best:
  • "We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home; in towns and cities; in shops, offices, stores, banks—anywhere that we may be placed—with the necessity always present of being on time and up to our work; of providing for the dependent ones; of keeping up, catching up, or getting left. "Alas for the life-long battle, whose bravest slogan is Bread."I am talking ... to those of the world's workers who go, or would like to go, every summer to the woods. And to these I would say, don't rough it; make it as smooth, as restful and pleasurable as you can."  - Nessmuk 
That is our hope that we can help all who come to be able to make life, as well as camping, "as smooth, as restful and pleasurable as you can." For the more we know the less we need, making life simpler, especially in the outdoors. There is a tranquility that effects our life as we travel amongst the trees and upon the raw ground, choosing our own trail. While we view the lofty mountains and drinking from the crystal streams.  There is a draw to encounter the unknown, to discover the forgotten scenery, and to become explorers of the vast depths found both within your surroundings and within yourself. These wanderings through the hills, grasslands, and deserts are the moments that clarify live and smooth the strains of the city's requests.