We move outside our comfort zone and seek new experiences to grow.

We find adventure in the epic and the everyday.

We travel to broaden our horizons and engage with nature.

We are most at home in remote landscapes and far away places, but never far from our

community of passionate dreamers and wanderers.

We are Chaconians.

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Here were your ChacoS go.

This is the Shorts and you're listening to the Dirtback Diaries, a duct tape and beer production,

with additional support from New Belgium Brewing, Kuat Racks and Patagonia.

It was the kind of bright mid-March morning that foretold the coming spring.

I painted it so obviously with the sun and warming light that it was all my friends

and I could do enough to strip down to T-shirts right there, even if it was only 50 degrees.

We stood in the clearing on the banks of the Muskinect Kong, a small tributary in northwest

New Jersey that empties into the Delaware River.

In mid-Summer the muskies languid and lazy, but now sharan high and fast with the runoff

of snow and recent rain.

Our plan wrapped the 15 or so miles of the muskie to her confluence with the Delaware.

From there we would continue down the larger river for two nights, camping on on small

islands and cooking over campfires, all a huck fin.

The crew included me, Peter, my former housemate, and Aaron and Christy, our two dear old best

friends.

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