Spring, late fall and winter are the ideal times to visit nearby deserts
I did have one important advantage though. My instructor, Christopher Hagedorn, has been leading classes and expeditions in this area for upward of 10 years. His company, Get in the Wild Adventures, has thrived throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Not surprising, I suppose. Canyoneering is by its very nature a socially distanced activity.
“I spent a good part of my life following the dream of being an astronaut,” he said the first day at our training camp, about 20 minutes’ drive from Hanksville, Utah.
“When I realized that wasn’t going to happen, I figured this was the closest I’d ever get to being on another planet.”
From his early roots in the cult TV show âFreaks and Geeks,â James Franco had the making of a star. Not only is he a deft actor, but he also has a bachelorâs degree from UCLA and two masters of fine art degrees, from Columbia University and Rhode Island School of Design.
In addition, Franco describes himself as Jewish, having grown up with a Russian Jewish mother. Even though he âmissed out on the Jewish experienceâ as a child, he had an official bar mitzvah in 2015.
Truly a jack-of-all-trades, Francoâs true calling has always been on the silver screen. So, in honor of his 43
Tinkerer, climber, engineer
Engineering alum and budding inventor Jessamy Taylor loves being outdoors, scaling heights, and solving problems. Among them: a better way to adaptive climb By Matt Crossman / Published Spring 2021
When Jessamy Taylor graduated from Johns Hopkins, her father, Brad, picked her up in Baltimore for a cross-country road trip back home to Oregon. They had an agreement, albeit unstated, that went like this: Jessamy, Engr 18, would accommodate stops to let Brad indulge his passion for trains, and Brad would accommodate stops to let Jessamy indulge her passion for bouldering and rock climbing.
Brad stayed off interstates as much as possible and also made occasional stops to dip his toes into bodies of water, a hobby he has pursued across a lifetime of travel. In covering more than 3,700 miles in a rented silver Toyota Camry, father and daughter listened to podcasts and audiobooks and belted out the Grateful Dead
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