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Comprehensive Grand Canyon Plant Guide

April 3, 2013Readings and Videos, Grand Canyon Natural HistorySharon 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 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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Grand Canyon Photo Contest – 2012 Winners

November 15, 2012General Info, Images ContestKim Lucy

Grand Canyon Photo Contest Every year, Arizona Raft Adventures holds a Grand Canyon Photo Contest. This years theme is “Inner Grand Canyon.” Raft participants and Grand Canyon photographers submit entries  via Arizona Raft Adventures Facebook page or by email to info@azraft.com.  Arizona Raft Adventures announces the winners in November and then features the winner on the…

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Nature Vacation Best Adventure

October 18, 2012General InfoKim Lucy

 Consider a Nature Vacation – By Lisa Franseen As I pack to leave for Lees Ferry from Flagstaff on the first morning of my nature vacation with Arizona Raft Adventures, I feel a twinge of angst as I throw my cell phone in the suitcase. When was the last time I was without this constant…

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2012 Writing Contest Winner

September 12, 2012Images ContestKim Lucy

Thank you to Richard Lloyd for submitting, I Dream of the Canyon, a beautiful poem and this years Grand Prize Winner for Arizona Raft Adventures’ Poetry/Short Story Contest!   I Dream of the Canyon Weathered Rock. Ancient people. The anticipation of another sunrise. Red Rock. Blue Sky. The whisper of a well-placed oar. I dream…

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