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Creative Adventure of Chasing the Light

February 14, 2014General Info, Readings and VideosSharon Hester

Chasing the Light: An Artistic Journey Down the Colorado in Grand Canyon Chasing the Light: An Artistic Journey Down the Colorado in Grand Canyon is a video for those seeking artistic adventures in painting, photography and music. However, non-artists also greatly appreciate this high-definition Grand Canyon documentary. The film features an assemblage of painters, photographers…

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Comprehensive Grand Canyon Plant Guide

April 3, 2013Grand Canyon Natural History, Readings and VideosSharon Hester

River and Desert Plants of the Grand Canyon, is the first-ever comprehensive Grand Canyon plant guide. Authors Kristin Huisinga, Lori Makarick and Kate Watters work with over eighty collaborators to create content devoted to the plants that live below the canyon rims. The guide features beautiful color photographs and detail line drawings of more than…

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Grand Canyon Rapids 101: An Overview

February 25, 2013General InfoSharon Hester

Grand Canyon Rapids Grand Canyon rapids are known for being big, wet, and intimidating, but few Grand Canyon rapids are referred to as technical. Technical rapids require making a move, or change in direction, when navigating a rapid. The more moves made, the more technical a rapid. Most Grand Canyon rapids only require the guide…

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Grand Canyon Google Map and AzRA

February 1, 2013General InfoSharon Hester

Grand Canyon Google Map An Arizona Raft Adventures rafting trip makes the Grand Canyon Google Map as new feature, hiking the Bright Angel trail in Grand Canyon, street side view!  If you have never checked out Google Maps, you should! There, you can explore the world from the comforts of your home. And now, Google…

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Grand Canyon: Three Deserts in One Canyon

January 11, 2013General Info, Grand Canyon Natural HistorySharon Hester

While most people realize that the ecosystems of the Grand Canyon are very different between the cool pine-treed clad high elevation rims and the dry and hot cactus dotted bottom, most people are not aware that the floor of the canyon has three different desert ecosystems within its walls.  In Grand Canyon, plants from three…

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Michael, Lucy, and On Being a Grand Canyon River Guide

December 5, 2012General InfoSharon Hester

On the way home from Diamond Creek, I asked Margeaux, a new Grand Canyon river guide with AzRA, what she had learned on the 8–day motor trip we had just completed. “I certainly learned to read water and how to drive the boat better, but mostly I learned more about what it is to be…

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