| As the snow continues to fall in the Rocky | | | | trip fills people with a sense of |
| Mountains of Colorado, and the Wind River | | | | accomplishment. After all you usually sleep |
| Mountains of Wyoming my mind drifts toward | | | | outside, deal with changing weather, surive |
| the upcoming summer in the Colorado Plateau | | | | rapids, and get sand blasting facials. A |
| of Utah and Arizona. Not because I am | | | | huge amount of people come back year after |
| chilled by the weather outside, but instead I | | | | year with Colorado River & Trail Expeditions. |
| am thrilled about the thought of water in the | | | | Take Wilma for example who had never been |
| mighty Colorado River and in its largest | | | | camping until she came on a rafting trip |
| tributary the Green River. I have traveled | | | | alone at age 58. Since that time she has |
| to Costa Rica and ridden the zip lines | | | | been back twelve times. She always says "Why |
| through the rainforest, I have seen the | | | | would I do anything else when I like this so |
| incredible animals of the Galapagos Islands, | | | | much?". I think the canyon makes you |
| and walked on the glaciers of Alaska; but no | | | | selfish. I always feel offended when it |
| place on Earth has captured my mind, body, | | | | comes up #2 or #3 in a magazine's greatest |
| and soul as the Grand Canyon has. There is | | | | vacation list or 100 things to do before you |
| no vacation on earth better than a Grand | | | | die. |
| Canyon Rafting Trip. | | | | |
| | | | The Grand Canyon can only be seen from the |
| A Grand Canyon Rafting trip is great for | | | | bottom to really get the praise it deserves. |
| families, groups, or individuals. People are | | | | Pictures don't give the Grand Canyon the |
| allowed to escape from the ordinary on a | | | | justice it deserves. The bottom of the Grand |
| multi-day rafting trip. Their worries change | | | | Canyon is unbelievable if you have not seen |
| from cell phones and business to adapting to | | | | it. There are waterfalls, steams, pinnacles, |
| the natural world. Trips to the movies are | | | | rapids, buttes, caves, caverns, animals, |
| traded for hikes to waterfalls. Crowded | | | | grottos, rapids, wildflowers, vertical walls, |
| swimming pools in the city are traded for | | | | metamorphic rocks, sedimentry rocks, igneous |
| natural quiet swimming holes. The bedroom | | | | rocks, trees, and open space. |
| ceiling is traded for the dark star filled | | | | |
| night sky. A sense of the natural world is | | | | If you are thinking about doing a rafting |
| put back into those who have been on a | | | | trip next summer here are some suggestions. |
| rafting trip. | | | | Take enough time to see the Grand Canyon. If |
| | | | you want to do a Grand Canyon Trip do the |
| I feel sorry for those who never see the | | | | whole 280 miles, don't do a partial trip. If |
| Grand Canyon, or only peer into its depths | | | | the eight days are too long then try a |
| from the popular South Rim. As a river guide | | | | shorter trip on the Colorado River in |
| for Colorado River and Trail Expeditions ( | | | | Canyonlands National Park. Colorado River and |
| for the past 13 years I have seen many | | | | Trail Expeditions offers motor, row, and |
| people's lives change on the Colorado River. | | | | paddle rafting trips in both locations. |
| It is truly amazing how many people tell me | | | | Grand Canyon trips usually originate and end |
| that their trip through Grand Canyon is the | | | | in Las Vegas. Plan on a day of rest and spa |
| greatest thing they have ever done. Many of | | | | treatments after your trip, it will give you |
| them are very worldly travelers having been | | | | some time to start thinking about your next |
| to places I have only seen in magazines, or | | | | river adventure. |
| read about in books. I think that a rafting | | | | |