Preparing for a winter rafting trip in the Grand Canyon requires careful planning and packing. Once you're in the Canyon, there's no popping over to the store quickly to get something you forgot. Besides food and beverages, everything you launch from Lee's Ferry will be what you have with you when
Grand Canyon Rafting Winter Itinerary to Pearce Ferry
While planning my Grand Canyon rafting trip on the Colorado River, I found it difficult to predict how far we would make it each day, where we would camp each night, and how many layover days (i.e. days off from rafting) our group would be able to take. I wasn't trying to make a firm plan on
Grand Canyon Rafting: Favorite (& Hated) Gear
A Grand Canyon rafting trip requires that you bring all the gear, food, and poop containers you're going to need for the entirety of your time on the river from the start; there are no gear shops or resupply points along the way. After scoring my permit, I learned a lot on my trip through the
14 Books to Read Before Rafting the Grand Canyon
I've been doing all I can to prepare myself for my upcoming Grand Canyon rafting trip. One of the things I've been doing (in addition to taking a rowing course on the Rogue River) is investing in reading material for both before and during my trip. There are a surprising number of books
17 Must-Have Items for Rafting the Grand Canyon
After winning a Grand Canyon rafting permit, I quickly started looking into what gear from the ultralight backpacking world would translate into the river world and what gear I would need to buy and/or replace. It turns out that the gear required for a river trip differs dramatically from the gear
I Got a Grand Canyon River Permit – Now What?
At the end of 2019, I found myself in Tennessee visiting with friends from the Continental Divide Trail. They had just returned from a 23-day rafting trip through the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River; their stoke level at an all-time high. "It was incredible. You have to get out there. It takes