Earthly Musings

RaftingOur Colorado river rafting choices in the Southwest of Colorado are conveniently situated out of our base in Durango, Colorado ; simply three hours from Albuquerque, 6 hours from Denver, 7 hours from Phoenix, 6 hours from Salt Lake Metropolis, 5 hours from the Grand Canyon and 3 hours from Santa Fe and Taos. We have now owned and operated a small mountain climbing/guide enterprise in Grand Canyon, a small lodge on the North Rim of Grand Canyon, a cross country ski heart on the North Kaibab, just a little nation retailer and gas station, also on the North Kaibab, and a small campground and RV park by Jacob Lake, AZ. We are slowing down a bit now, after years of working 7 days every week and 15-16 hour days.

An oar powered boat enters President Harding Fast at mile forty four (mileages on the river are measured from Lees Ferry which is mile zero). The 1923 Birdseye Expedition laid over here after they heard the news that President Warren Harding died.

Among the many tales and theories that have sprung up over time about what really happened to the Hydes was the declare made by an aged woman on a industrial Grand Canyon rafting journey in 1971, when she announced to other rafters that she was in truth Bessie Hyde, and that she had stabbed her abusive husband to dying and escaped the canyon on her own.

Be taught more about this amazing pure wonder of the world – it is history, both geological and human; the individuals who’ve made Grand Canyon their home, from previous to present; the wildlife; the river that had a giant part in creating it; and events that have taken place in the Park.

On the afternoon of Could 24, 1869, at Inexperienced River Portage in what is now the state of Wyoming, a one-armed Civil Struggle veteran together with a workforce of 9 that included geologists, scouts and geographers, set off in four wood rowboats to fill in a giant blank: to explore and map one of many last and largest unknown areas of the United States-roughly 1,000 miles of the Colorado River by means of the rugged, desolate deserts and canyons of Utah and Arizona, including the mile-high cliffs of Grand Canyon.

Find yourself on a Colorado rafting journey passing by five 14ers on the Browns Canyon portion of the Arkansas River, carving narrow sections of the Cache la Poudre River, glimpsing Gold Rush relics on Clear Creek, trying up on the massively high Royal Gorge Bridge from the Arkansas River or floating down delicate stretches of the Colorado River near Grand Junction and Glenwood Springs.

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