THE REDSIDE FOUNDATION

ADDRESSING THE MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES OF BEING A GUIDE

HILARY HUTCHESON

NOTE TO READERS: THE FOLLOWING CONTENT CONTAINS DISCUSSIONS OF SUICIDE AND SELF-HARM. THESE TOPICS CAN BE TRIGGERING FOR SOME INDIVIDUALS AND MAY EVOKE STRONG EMOTIONAL RESPONSES. We lined up along the riverbank, all six guides, fly rods ready, playing it cool. We waited for the start whistle, volleying good-natured trash talk and boasting with unruffled poise that got us this far. Far, geographically, isn’t that far. At least not far from our home base in West Glacier, Montana. It’s a jaunt upriver at Rainbow Bend, the final campsite before the Spruce Park series of Class IV rapids on the Upper Middle Fork of the Flathead River inside the Great Bear Wilderness. To most of our clients, it’s as far from their regular lives as they could imagine. It’s another planet. On…

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Fly Fisherman (Digital) - 1 Issue, June/July 2024

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