Christa Sadler
When not working as a naturalist in the American Southwest, Christa Sadler might be conducting research in archaeology, geology and paleontology across much of the globe. She has searched for dinosaurs in Montana, fought off dust storms and overly curious camels in the Gobi Desert and run away from angry marine iguanas in the Galapagos Islands. Her split-personality life has her guiding backpacking trips and running rivers in the southwest in the spring and fall, escaping to Alaska to run rivers in the summer and wandering south with the whales to guide sea kayaking trips in Baja California in the winter. Sadler’s articles and photographs have appeared in Plateau Magazine, Plateau Journal, Sedona Magazine, Sojourns and Earth Magazine. Sadler wrote Life in Stone and published the iconic Grand Canyon compilation There’s This River… Grand Canyon Boatman Stories.