Our group is heading down the river March 10-27th. Looking for people's experience at that time of the year. I've been down 4 times before during Aug/Sept...
I was on a trip which launched on March 7 2007. We had 2 very cold nights at Lee's. Then 10 miles down river every day was just about perfect. Some days we...
On our 2007 March trip we started with green/clear water. As I said before the temperatures at Lee's were cold. The morning of our launch the sand was frozen...
Hi BT, what Larry said: Take all the things needed for cold and warm. Only thing i wouldn't take are December-Feb knee high mud boots with the closed cell foam...
An amazing story, and this may make a clickable link out of it. http://www.ducts.org/content/memoirs-of-a-grand-canyon-boatman/ Rugged country down there!...
On a March trip in 2005, we had snow at Lees Ferry and cold rainy weather almost the entire trip. There were two days with nice weather. We launch again...
In 2007, we launched March 1 and took out at South Cove on March 21. We were prepared for rain and possibly snow. It snowed on the road down to Lee's Ferry...
Our March 2007 trip was pretty steady at about 12K I think and pretty green the whole way, except for Lava, which was pretty white! John L. PS, take some good...
How about the sleeping bag. On the Aug/Sept trips, all I brought was a sleeping sheet & my cot. I'll bring a tent this time & am trying to decide between the...
We brought the heavy bags and were very happy we did! Cold nights... **************New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines....
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<The river is by far the easy way> Yes it is. But side hikes make it all worthwhile. For instance, this side hike exploit in Chile: ...
Very true, foamy! There are wonderful, mysterious, beautiful, haunting places up some of those tributaries. But you know, unlike the guy who clamored around...
I have heard of petroglyphs (rumor?) just upstream (about 100 yards?) of Brown's Inscription, river left. Any confirmation or more specific directions? Thanks,...
Don't run Lava Falls on a Tuesday afternoon. At modern water levels, 7-12,000 cfs, Lava gets 48 hour Glen Canyon releases. These are lowest on Tuesday (Sunday...
The hard part is knowing what day it is by the time you get there :) ... releases. These are lowest on Tuesday (Sunday release) and at modern water levels,...
I'm trying to document boater use patterns in Dinosaur National Monument and have run into a stumbling block. The monument does not keep very good records...
An article "How the city hurts your brain" discusses a new study by Marc Berman (graduate student in cognitive psychology and industrial engineering) about the...
That's interesting TomR. We've been visiting a lot with family of late, and i can't help but notice the frequency of the screen changes on the TV. It's all...
This goes right up through my person beliefs. I'm still young, and figuring stuff out, but as a staunch conservative, I love taking the environmental stance...
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