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