Rafting The Colorado River By means of Grand Canyon
At Lees Ferry, the beginning of all Grand Canyon river journeys, the Kaibab Limestone makes its first look above river degree (the whitish beds beneath the purple Moenkopi Fm.). In simply sixty five miles it will tower between 5,000 and 6,000 toes above the river. Metropolitan Water District of Los Angeles and Southern Nevada Water Authority have voiced their critical issues about possible contamination of the Colorado River if uranium mining is permitted across the Grand Canyon. From February 18-April 3, the Department of the Interior is inviting comments on Secretary of the Inside Salazar’s proposal to close all new uranium mining surrounding the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River corridor in Arizona.
This detailed topographic and trail map of 308,000 acres in central Grand Canyon covers eight USGS quads. The photographs on this e book take you along the entire length of the Colorado River, from its rugged upstream …
Whitewater rafting blog by the whitewater trade leader Rafting America. Those of us with automobiles drove them from the lodge (in Nevada), across bridge over Hoover Dam (into Arizona) and all the way down to Willow Beach, where we might finish our trip a few days later. We begin early at eight a.m. down the Colorado River and, after a couple of miles of open terrain, begin touring between towering crimson sandstone canyons.