35 For Life

This feature was a painstaking process  that started from an inspirational picture our Editor saw and decided to conceptualize a feature around it.

I shared the editorial side of this assignment with Paddler’s Editor, Mike Kord. I wrote the following entries:

1. Leave No Trace; 14. Set Up a Z-Pulley; 16. Be a Rescue Hero; 18. Pay Off a Foreign Cop; 20. Feed 20 Hungry Paddlers; 23. Circumnavigate the Grand Canyon Permit System; 25. Practice Paddling PR; 29. Vacation on 2K or Less; 35. Plan an Expedition

Our art director suggested the photographic concept to me which I collaborated with my good friend Nick Walker and my brother to carry out. We used my childhood GI Joes, which Nick shot in my parent’s suburban backyard and pool. Click for entire feature