The Frank Ain't Broke: A conversation with Doug Tims

Jack sits down with living legend Doug Tims: former IOGA president, co-founder of America Outdoors, longtime Middle Fork and Selway outfitter, the man who turned Maravia rafts into the industry standard, and for twenty years the caretaker of Campbell’s Ferry on the Main Salmon. Doug tells how a Mississippi kid who’d never seen a mountain ended up running thirteen Middle Fork launches a season. He talks about how IOGA hired its first paid staff and how a national voice for outfitters was formed, and how a Navy SEAL team helped reinvent the way rafts are built. He also shares why he’s optimistic about the next twenty years of outfitting and wilderness in Idaho.