The Sound of the River

"I remember the water being really cold, but it didn't matter in a way that it would have mattered if it wasn't really high stakes," she says. "It was kind of one of those moments where you feel really like alone in the backcountry ... I don't have a huge margin for air on my own feet." She recalls checking to make sure her waist belt was unbuckled and tucking hiking boots tighter before just getting in the river. 'And then pretty quickly, I was like in the middle of the river'