The University of Montana hosts the UM Summer Exploration program where high schoolers live like a college student, but this year did not go to plan because of the heat, fires, and outages.
Fisher was planning to complete the LeadBoat challenge, a grueling race that mashes up hundreds of miles of mountain biking and gravel riding in back-to-back events. And if she completed the race, she'd be the first paracyclist to do it. That was a story Powers wanted to tell.
"If I hear music on the river, I want it to be live music. I want someone floating by while playing a banjo." Much to my surprise, I learned about an event that will do exactly that.