Bighorns Part 1: The Wild Goose

Team NRS paddler Erik Boomer along with expedition paddlers Nouria Newman and Ben Stookesberry take on, what they consider, one of the best domestic first descents they have ever done. Two drainages on the east side of the Big Horn Mountain Range appeared to have incredible whitewater possibilities but the only information they could get from anyone who had scouted them was to not to waste their time in the Big Horns. “It’s all full of sieves and nothing goes,“ they said. But that’s exactly the kind of be