Brought to you by The Waterproof Notebook and Middle Fork Rapid Transit, this new guided backcountry float trip offers 5 days and 4 nights to unplug, reflect, connect, and find your flow state on 75 miles of wild river.

Led in collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer/editor Mark Warren, this special edition river adventure is curated for writers, editors, and creative leaders who need uninterrupted time in the flow state to incubate big projects and ideas. Non-writers are also welcome to apply. Space is limited to ensure small-group intimacy.

Getting off the grid and immersed in nature will reset your nervous system and allow the kind of deep thinking that isn’t possible amid the interruptions and demands of daily life and work. You can workshop your ideas (optional) in community with other big thinkers, get one-on-one time with Mark and Kim, attend small-group breakout sessions, and enjoy pockets of solitude to think and write between immersive adventures on the river. Whether you’re wrapping your head around a book, imagining the next chapter of your life, or simply in need of a break from the ever-loving grind, this wilderness excursion will send you home recharged with clarity and momentum.

The Middle Fork is a trip of a lifetime—period. Among the world’s most legendary whitewater rivers, it’s one the only ways to explore Idaho’s 2.3-million-acre Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, the largest US wilderness in the Lower 48. In September, the river promises mellower rapids, swimmable temps, and stargazing in the nation’s first gold-tier International Dark Skies Reserve. Opt-in adventures include fly fishing for native westslope cutthroat trout, soaking in hot springs, and guided hikes to petroglyphs, historic sites, and staggering views of a gorge deeper than the Grand Canyon. On the river, you can relax on an oar boat rowed by a guide, run rapids in a splashy paddle boat, or pilot your own inflatable kayak “duckie.”

Explore the wilderness in rustic luxury. You’ll wake up to coffee and a hot breakfast, refuel on the river with a made-from-scratch lunch, and float into each night’s riverside camp, where guides have set up your tent and laid out a happy-hour spread of apps and drinks. We’ll have a fireside discussion about storytelling craft and workshop ideas during a gourmet dinner (a typical menu includes grilled salmon, fresh veggies, wine or beer, and Dutch oven desserts), then leave you time to write before falling asleep on the plushest sleeping pads on the river. Pro tip: Forgo your tent and sleep under the stars (the Middle Fork has few mosquitoes).