Make a Puzzle: Kami Bakken on Guiding, Grants and Storytelling

Interview: Kami Bakken. Kami guides the Middle Fork and Main Salmon for Canyons River Company. She’s also the sole employee of Rivers for Change and works on the Girl Winter Film Tour. She and Jack talk about: 

• Working a full guiding season alongside a year-round career 
• Rivers for Change microgrants, which open twice a year, and the “source to sea” idea 
• Storytelling as one of a guide’s most powerful advocacy tools 
• How the Redside Foundation got her through a dark stretch after the season 
• Her advice to younger guides: there’s no box you have to fit in, so “make a puzzle”