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Photography by Ryan Calacsan, words by Erica Zazo, originally published in Mountain Gazette.\n\n**[View Live](https://chicago-current.vercel.app)**\n\n![Chicago Current Preview](./preview.png)\n\n## Tech Stack\n\n- **Framework** — Next.js 16 (App Router, static generation)\n- **Language** — TypeScript\n- **Animation** — [GSAP](https://gsap.com) (ScrollTrigger, containerAnimation, scrub)\n- **Smooth Scroll** — [Lenis](https://lenis.darkroom.engineering)\n- **Styling** — Tailwind CSS v4 (CSS-first config)\n- **Fonts** — Instrument Serif (headlines), Inter (body)\n- **Deployment** — Vercel\n\n## Features\n\n- **Scroll-driven narrative** — Seven thematic sections with mile markers guide the reader downstream, pacing the story with scroll progress\n- **Horizontal scroll gallery** — The \"Into the Green\" section pins and scrolls horizontally with nested scale/opacity animations on each image panel via `containerAnimation`\n- **Word-by-word text highlighting** — `ScrollHighlight` component illuminates text word-by-word as the reader scrolls, pacing atmospheric passages like the rhythm of paddling\n- **Split text reveals** — Character-by-character and word-by-word entrance animations for headlines and pull quotes\n- **Parallax photography** — `ParallaxImage` adds depth with scroll-speed-adjusted vertical movement\n- **Image reveal animations** — Directional clip-path reveals (left, right, top, bottom) for editorial-style image entrances\n- **Section color theming** — CSS custom properties shift per section via `data-theme` attributes, with GSAP-animated color transitions between palettes\n- **Pinned scroll timeline** — River Story section pins and scrubs through a multi-paragraph narrative\n- **Custom cursor** — Lerp-smoothed cursor with event-delegated hover states for interactive and image elements\n- **Preloader** — Animated entrance with font and hero image readiness detection\n- **Film grain overlay** — SVG feTurbulence noise texture for analog photo quality\n- **Scroll progress bar** — Fixed 2px indicator tracking page scroll position\n- **Gradient section bridges** — Smooth color transitions between sections eliminate hard cuts\n- **Reduced motion support** — All animations gracefully degrade, images remain visible\n- **Mobile-optimized** — Responsive layouts with touch-aware animation adjustments\n\n## Getting Started\n\n```bash\npnpm install\npnpm dev\n```\n\nOpen [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000) to view the site.\n\n## Project Structure\n\n```\napp/\n  globals.css               # Tailwind v4 config, section color palettes, film grain\n  layout.tsx                # Root layout with fonts, providers, cursor, overlays\n  page.tsx                  # Single-page section composition\ncomponents/\n  Hero.tsx                  # Full-bleed hero with parallax, split text, scroll indicator\n  SectionLaunch.tsx         # Mile 0 — kayak launch with scale image + scroll highlight\n  SectionRiverStory.tsx     # Pinned scroll timeline with character-split headline\n  SectionGreen.tsx          # Mile 2 — horizontal scroll gallery with nested animations\n  SectionTransition.tsx     # Mile 4 — GSAP-animated color shift between palettes\n  SectionCity.tsx           # Mile 7 — urban canyon photo grid\n  SectionSummit.tsx         # Mile 9 — journey's end with full-bleed hero\n  Footer.tsx                # Credits, links, attribution\n  Preloader.tsx             # Animated page entrance with loading bar\n  ScrollProgress.tsx        # Fixed scroll progress indicator\n  CustomCursor.tsx          # Lerp-smoothed cursor with event delegation\n  ui/\n    TextReveal.tsx          # Scroll-triggered fade/slide entrance\n    SplitTextReveal.tsx     # Character or word split with staggered reveal\n    ScrollHighlight.tsx     # Word-by-word opacity scrub on scroll\n    ImageReveal.tsx         # Directional clip-path image reveal\n    ParallaxImage.tsx       # Scroll-driven parallax with speed control\n    ScaleImage.tsx          # Scale-on-scroll image with parallax\nproviders/\n  SmoothScrollProvider.tsx  # Lenis + GSAP ticker integration\n  PreloaderProvider.tsx     # Font and image readiness context\nlib/\n  gsap-config.ts            # GSAP + ScrollTrigger plugin registration\n  utils.ts                  # Reduced motion and mobile detection helpers\n```\n\n## Deployment\n\nDeployed on [Vercel](https://chicago-current.vercel.app). 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