Living deep as the river riffles along.(Columns)(Column)

The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) | February 24, 2004 | Copyright

Byline: Bob Welch / The Register-Guard

CAMP SHERMAN - Henry David Thoreau went to the woods because he wished to live deliberately, to "live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life. ...'

Me? I wanted the same basic program, but with the added luxury of perhaps picking up a fuzzy radio broadcast of the Oregon/Arizona State men's basketball game Saturday night.

Given this juxtaposition of hoops and Henry David, my weekend on the Metolius River might be aptly called a "free ...

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