This is the third in a series of what will be more than a dozen posts on rafting the Grand Canyon: 19 days, 280 miles of adventure. When you go rafting in the Grand Canyon, you have lots of options for getting through it, most of them involving outfitters and even motors. That’s not the [...]
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Grand Canyon Rafting Adventure 3: meet our companions and see the river from the rim
Posted in camping, Colorado River, Food, Grand Canyon, travel, whitewater, tagged camping, Food, photography, travel, whitewater rafting on July 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Grand Canyon Rafting Adventure 2: getting there
Posted in camping, Colorado River, Grand Canyon, travel, tagged camping, Food, photography, travel on July 22, 2010 | 8 Comments »
In case you missed the first installment of GCRA, click here. Eventually the whole series will be here. On a warm June morning, my husband and I departed our little Ozark homestead, bound for western waters. We had had several months to prepare for our adventure. We had made several trips to the big city–Little [...]
Grand Canyon Rafting Adventure 1: the beginning
Posted in Colorado River, Grand Canyon, travel, whitewater, tagged travel on July 11, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Some time over the winter, my husband got a phone call from an old paddling friend. The phone call changed our life. The friend, RS, said he had hit the Grand Canyon private permit river lottery. He and his wife had combined 15 years each of wait-listing for 30 years in the weighted lottery in [...]
