It was my third summer in Alaska, and we were in a Cessna 206 headed from Lake Clark to American Creek. Although I had been in several small planes and bad storms, that was by far the worst. I usually did quite well on rough flights, but on that day I came the closest so [...]

he water was a deep turquoise color and glassy calm, as we touched down in the super cub on floats, and then idled into the shallows. Josh and I hopped off of the float into the water, and I was surprised to feel it was warm. We unlashed our kayaks from the plane and headed [...]