For the One Who Finds It
This video is a father's talk to men in recovery about losing his son Lance — the loss that led to the founding of Blackwater Outdoor Journeys. It is shared in the hope that it reaches someone who needs it.
This one is not a river film. There is no canoe in it and no camp. It is a father talking to a room of men in recovery about his son Lance, and it is on this channel because it belongs to the same story as everything else here.
Blackwater Outdoor Journeys started after we lost Lance. The films began as a way to stop time, to keep the adventures from fading the way memories do. That is the whole reason there is a channel, a website, or any of it.
We do not put this film in front of people, and we do not need it to get views. It sits here quietly for whoever needs to find it. If that is you, or someone you love is fighting that fight, this talk is for you.
The one person that finds it and it helps is worth it.