General Blog Posts   ·   January 2018
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Winter at the Confluence

This last weekend I stopped at the confluence of the Gallatin, Madison and Jefferson rivers. This is the official start of the Missouri River. The rivers are icebound right now, but I was able to get a sense for where my journey will begin this spring. This is a large undertaking that I need to look at one mile and one day at a time.

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