100 Days on the Mighty Colorado River
Presented by Bryan Brown
February 2, 2016, 7:30 pm
A 2,400-Mile Solo Kayak Odyssey - Join adventure traveler Bryan Brown to relive his remarkable story about successfully completing the first-ever solo, unsupported descent of the entire 2,400-mile Colorado River watershed September-November, 2013, as a tribute to his brother. The meeting starts at 7:30 pm, Tuesday February 2, 2016, at the San Bernardino County Museum, 2024 Orange Tree Lane, Redlands.
Consisting of the Green River, and the Upper and Lower Colorado Rivers, the historic Green/Colorado watershed features some of the most fabled and remote whitewater passages on earth: Dinosaur National Monument, Desolation Canyon, Cataract Canyon, Grand Canyon, and Westwater Canyon. This is the journey renowned explorer John Wesley Powell originally intended to take.
This journey was the first of three source-to-mouth kayak expeditions - the Colorado, the Yukon, and Canada's MacKenzie Rivers - successfully executed to highlight how the management of the Colorado River watershed serves as a benchmark for the other large watersheds in North America. All of these regions are embattled in one way or another. Mr. Brown's presentation ultimately focuses specifically upon strategic water-use issues.
By vocation, Bryan Brown is a Wall Street Market Strategist. By avocation, he is an eco/adventure traveler. His river portfolio now includes some 7,000 miles of unsupported wilderness travel under some of the most challenging conditions possible.
In other endeavors, Bryan has hiked the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, completed a 3,000-mile solo transcontinental bicycle ride, climbed over 40 14,000-foot mountains, collected rare Oceanic art by dugout canoe on the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea, snorkeled with Minke and Humpback whales in Tonga, fed Komodo dragons on their home turf, shared an interesting open-ocean dive with two full-grown whale sharks and a Galapagos Shark, and rounded Cape Horn by sea.
He and wife Sandy have traveled on six of the seven continents, share a passion for scuba diving, and have logged dives in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, New Guinea, the Maldives, the Galapagos, Tonga, Cocos Island, and throughout Central America and the Caribbean.
