“I’ve been out here on the Talachulitna for 16 years, since the 2008 economic crash. I was a masonry contractor in Oregon, and I just didn’t want to do it anymore. My wife asked me what I wanted to do, and I told her I wanted to go fishing. She said ‘Where?’ I said ‘Alaska.’ A year later we ended up in Anchorage, and the next day, we landed on the Talachulitna River.”