Who You Want to Run With

I have a story in the October issue of Outside about running the Middle Fork of the Flathead river. Photo by Joe Pugliese.

MY FRIEND NATE CROSS was turning 40 and wanted to take a river trip. The months leading up to his birthday had been tough. After 15 years his dog had died. That was five years longer than he'd been married. For a few weeks, Nate had carried photos of Junction in his shirt pocket and showed them to bartenders and waiters and cashiers. He told me that when he added up all the miles he'd walked with that Lab, it was about the same distance as circumnavigating the globe.

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