Retracing Powell’s Ultimate Colorado River Expedition

“Following in Powell’s footsteps, we’re rafting 1,000 miles from Wyoming to Nevada,” narrates filmmaker Ben Kraushaar throughout the trailer for Powell 150.  Created by Kraushaar and Cody Perry, the film will doc a 72-day river journey by the Colorado River Basin, which retraced the route of Western explorer John Wesley Powell.

With sweeping pictures of canyon environment and close-ups of pounding whitewater, one goal of the film is to share the exhilaration of such a go to. As rower Jessica Flock describes throughout the trailer, “The adrenaline extreme that you simply simply get is unexplainable, after which it sticks with you for days.”

Within the meantime, one different goal of Powell 150 is to elevate consciousness of the quite a few factors affecting the world’s inhabitants throughout the 21^st century.

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Ben Kraushaar

“The river is over allotted,” outlined Kraushaar by e mail. “Native climate change is posed to reduce Colorado River Basin flows by 20 p.c by 2050. And Basin tribes, no matter being legally entitled to 20 p.c of the Basin’s water, are nonetheless combating for an equitable future.”

Capturing the spectacular footage was made even harder by the every day challenges confronted by the expedition. Cameras wanted to be charged by photo voltaic power and shielded from sand and water damage. One near upset occurred in Cataract Canyon on the Colorado River, which was working extreme at 54,000 cfs when the expedition arrived on July 4, 2019.

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“Our lead boat and most expert oarsman flipped early throughout the run,” said Kraushaar, describing a scene confirmed on the end of the trailer. “Now we have been determined to rescue our comrades and we had no choice nevertheless to keep up powering downriver. Our boat [Kraushaar and Perry], packed filled with high-priced and delicate electronics, nearly flipped in a attribute often known as Little Niagara. On the end of the day, [the group] misplaced 5 oars, nevertheless no one drowned. Now we have been so lucky.”

Powell 150 is scheduled to premiere by early 2021, and the crew is at current fundraising to cowl post-production costs.

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