To Carl Finter, photographer, shooting a few hundred shots during a summertime rafting trip down the Rogue River in southwestern Oregon sounded like an enjoyable and easy way to fulfill his contract with the travel magazine. The long-anticipated earthquake on the Oregon coast was only the beginning of a series of events that would threaten his life, bring true love into it, and propel him into deepening mystery and intrigue that would reach back millions of years into the past!