This suspicious character was seen milling about at the 1980 Reagan inauguration in a pair of running shorts. The secret service and George Bush knew him as Big John. John has a storied life and though he hobnobbed with Mike Love and the Maharishi, make no bones about it – he is a river guide to the core and can drink the beer to prove it.

Co-founder of River Dancers and teacher of Transcendental Meditation, you’ll still find him out running trips. No one knows the river better. He is our guru.