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Mike Bezemek

Mike Bezemek has chased adventures all across the country, including living on both coasts and in the middle. Over the years he’s become a raft guide, a river researcher, a kayaker, a college teacher, a mountain biker, a writer, a pretty-bad skier, a photographer, a shaky-legged paddleboarder, an editor, a shaky-legged packrafter, and a bewildered camper owner. He’s always on the lookout for yet another outdoor pursuit to give an amateurish try.

He’s the author of six books, including Paddling the John Wesley Powell Route: Exploring the Green and Colorado Rivers, which combines a river guide with the dramatic true story about the 1869 Powell expedition. He lived for ten years in St. Louis, during which time he published Paddling the Ozarks, a guide to forty of the region’s best flatwater and whitewater paddling opportunities.

Other books include Discovering the Outlaw Trail: Routes, Hideouts, and Stories from the Wild West, which blends the true story of Butch Cassidy, the Wild Bunch, Ann Bassett, and Browns Park, with a trip guide to over 90 outlaw-themed adventures. Space Age Adventures: Over 100 Terrestrial Sites and Out of this World Stories blends true stories about space travel with a guide to space museums, telescope observatories, and outdoor astronaut training sites located across the country.

In addition to Duct Tape Diaries, he also has written for Outside, Blue Ridge Outdoors, Terrain Magazine, Men’s Journal, National Parks Magazine, Adventure Cyclist, Paddling Magazine, Rafting Magazine, and Canoe & Kayak.

  • Paddling Along the Blue Ridge Parkway

    February 29, 2024March 1, 202411 minute readby Mike Bezemek

    Paddling the Wild West: Explorations on the Outlaw Trail

    November 25, 2023November 30, 202312 minute readby Mike Bezemek

    Paddling & Not Paddling Southeastern National Parks

    August 24, 2023August 17, 202311 minute readby Mike Bezemek

    Strange Encounters of the Canyon Country Kind

    May 28, 2021May 25, 202112 minute readby Mike Bezemek

    Escape to Nebraska’s Niobrara River

    September 9, 2020September 8, 20209 minute readby Mike Bezemek

    A Creative Guide to Paddling Closer to Home

    July 3, 2020July 3, 20209 minute readby Mike Bezemek

    A Little Grand Canyon in the San Rafael Swell

    June 3, 2020May 29, 20209 minute readby Mike Bezemek

    Creeks That Switch Direction: Paddling in South Carolina’s Low Country

    April 24, 2020May 5, 20201 minute readby Mike Bezemek

    Going Boating to Go Hiking

    March 24, 2020March 23, 20201 minute readby Mike Bezemek

    Paddling (and Dragging and Hiking) the Truckee River to Reno

    October 7, 2019October 2, 201912 minute readby Mike Bezemek
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