Where Are Your Men?
Rafting Western Rivers With The Ladies

A book with a variety of women’s voices that span three decades of adventures, experiences, and friendships as they brave the challenges and allure of western whitewater.

Where Are Your Men? Rafting Western Rivers With The Ladies Book by Zan Merrill and Nikki Naiser

What do a bunch of well-seasoned river gals do on river trips without their men?

Everything you might imagine, and more. 

Where Are Your Men? Rafting Western Rivers With The Ladies is a book filled with stories that invite you to relive experiences of women who have been running rivers for decades and find themselves back out on whitewater year after year. You’ll find tales of difficult rescues and the kind of unexpected adventures western river runners love to share.

Through a variety of stories, haikus, poems, and essays, this anthology goes deeper. The personal accounts explore the beauty of both the rivers and trusted friendships forged over the years. Sharing life’s celebrations and tragedies, these women navigate the waters of their lives.

Where Are Your Men? Rafting Western Rivers With The Ladies
Book Reviews

Where Are Your Men? Rafting Western Rivers With The Ladies Book by Zan Merrill and Nikki Naiser
“I love this collection! So many women-centric stories end up being all about the men who aren’t with them on the river or in the wild, which never made a lot of sense to me. This collection instead speaks to the relationship these women have with each other and with the landscapes they travel in, which is far more gratifying, interesting, and inspiring.

The collection reads easily and well, a great companion on any adventure in the wild—whether your men are along or not!”

– Christa Sadler, river gal and editor of There’s This River… Grand Canyon Boatman Stories

Where Are Your Men? Rafting Western Rivers With The Ladies Book by Zan Merrill and Nikki Naiser

Where Are Your Men? is a nice compilation on a subject that demands more attention. Reading it gives you the joyful sense of being on the river with the ‘gals.’”

– Jedediah Smith, University of Utah Press

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