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About
the
Cover
There is no more interesting
character than “Dallas”
whom I have featured on the
cover for September.
B
ack in 2005, Dallas began his quest to
build a raft, out of the most impossible junk
you have ever seen, and float it down the
Hudson River to New York City.
As I looked into all this nonsense and
saw the following that he had developed,
I began to realize that this was more than
just adventure.
It was Dallas Trombley’s way of putting
some meaning into his life in a rather
unique way.
So unique was it that Cory Kilgannon of
the New York Times, and Outside Magazine
both wrote in depth stories about him and
his trips.
Since I was in regular contact with him on
his trips it came to pass on one of them that
his adventure really ended with a bang.
Dallas called me from his raft while in
Newburgh Bay and said, “I think I am
in trouble, my raft is falling apart and
it is getting very dark in the west over
Newburgh.”
I took one look at the weather online and
saw that a huge thunderstorm was coming
directly at him.
Lucky for him Lex Filipowski, a dear friend
of mine, was on the water fairly close to
where the raft was falling apart. Alerting