Senior Editor

Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate is an adventurer who has spent years as a journalist using nature and words to make sense of life, love, and his place in it. He is a staff assignment writer for numerous surfing, guitar, and fly-fishing magazines, and has been published internationally more than two hundred times. In 2019 The Flyfish Journal created a documentary film about Riverhorse titled, “Love & Water,” which was supported by Patagonia. The film followed him throughout his beloved Texas coast and forest lakes, and he wrote both the music and narration for it. He recently starred in the 2021 Patagonia film “A Northern Light.” Riverhorse is a Patagonia Fly Fish Ambassador, native Texan, and is currently working on a film with the Sami Tribe fishing in the Arctic Circle of Lapland. His publications include such magazines as Surfing, Surfer, The Surfer’s Journal, The Fretboard Journal, Vintage Guitar Magazine, The ToneQuest Report, The Flyfish Journal, American Angler, and many others. He has been interviewed and featured on national podcasts and radio shows such as MeatEater, and in magazines from Africa to Norway and on. He is known for traveling alone to the farthest outer fringes of nature and the earth to immerse himself in terrain, explore solitude, pen stories of the beauty of the path, and the amusing characters along the way.