5 Books That You’ll Love Reading on Your Grand Canyon Raft Trip by Beth Henshaw Your Grand Canyon trip is booked. Soon you’ll be driving to Lee’s Ferry, where an impossible red desert reveals a river flowing through its canyons. While you’re packing your bags, the rapids are roaring and the ravens can’t wait for…
A fun story by guest contributor Patricia “Patch” McCairen To help us kick off our 60th anniversary celebrations this year, we asked the AzRA community to share memories from the past. We’re starting off with Patch’s story! You can see a post about her solo Grand Canyon adventure which is linked below too. It’s always…
Down the Colorado Alone by Patricia “Patch” McCairen Drifting away from Lees Ferry, through the Paria Riffle, in Sunshine Lady, my 15′ Avon Professional Raft, I slid between the Kaibab Limestone that quickly ascended on both sides of the Colorado. I gripped my oars, feeling very small and insignificant. I was alone on a dark…
Thoughts from Mikah Meyer-Travel Blogger, Speaker & Advocate River trips are my favorite form of travel. Getting on the water, for days at a time. Nothing to do but focus on beautiful nature while disconnecting from the digital world. Woooooo! Sign, Me, Up! I love multi-day river trips so much, that when the outdoors brand…
Clouds and What They Tell You Guest Post by Greg Zielinski Imagine being on a long Grand Canyon rafting trip and you are out of touch with weather forecasts, but you would like to know if there is a chance that you will encounter some precipitation or especially thunderstorms in the next 12 hours or…
Grand Canyon Trips 1989-2021 Written by Mildred Cox, about all of her AzRA trips! I took my first white water river trip in 1980 and have since done 23. The most recent trip was through Grand Canyon with AzRA in May/June 2021. My first Grand Canyon trip was with AzRA in 1989, and since then,…
Learn more about Volcanos in Northern Arizona Guest post by Greg Zielinski Driving toward the Grand Canyon along Routes 180, 64, 89 and I40 from Flagstaff and other parts of Northern Arizona or when flying into the region, one can see many mountains and conical shaped hills, as in photo above. Almost all of these…
All About Lightning and What It’s Like in Grand Canyon by guest blogger Greg Zielinski Monsoon season in Arizona Mid-July and you are rafting on the Colorado River or hiking on one of the trails along the rims or that head into the Canyon. The clouds above have been getting taller and darker throughout the…
Poems from AzRA Guest Tom Pattee Lees Ferry Standing at Lee’s Ferry, Staring into the abyss that is the Grand Canyon, Sets the mind to wander, Sets the spirit to wonder what adventures are just down river. The Paleo Inhabitants some 11,000 years ago must have done the same. For us, the mysteries of the…
Grand Canyon’s Great Unconformity-Part 1 Written by Wayne Ranney, Grand Canyon Geologist and Author Whether you’ve taken one or seven Grand Canyon river trips or are preparing for your first, you might have heard of a geologic attraction called The Great Unconformity. It often seems as if this feature is more famous than the Canyon’s…
