The 40-ish year old Marine Corps veteran spent six months on the river (a total of 175 "paddle days") to reach the ocean from Montana. We originally interviewed Amanda Hoenes last spring, and since then she's published a captivating book about her epic journey.
A picture shared this week on social media of a barbed wire fence strung across a popular river in Montana was generating passionate comments. Like it or not, fences over rivers on private property are not illegal.
It seems far too soon to be talking about flooding, but it's already happening in some areas of the state, according to the latest info from Montana DNRC.