Jon Koenig

Jon Koenig runs rivers, builds trip systems, and documents canyon country. Two decades on the water across the Colorado and Green river systems — from 7,000-cfs low-water Cataracts to 37,000-cfs peak runoff through the Big Drops, winter Grand Canyon traverses to fall-shoulder Westwater overnights. Primary craft: dory and raft. On the river he goes by Cutty. Desert Maritime is where the trip reports, field systems, and observations from those miles end up — not as a publication schedule, but as the working record of a small crew that keeps going back.