If you are seeking a professionally guided river trip through the grand canyon this is the right place.
Grand canyon river guides association.
Grand canyon area map there is only one way to cross the colorado river by automobile and that is 137 miles 231 km from the south rim village at marble canyon az via the navajo bridge a few miles downstream from lees ferry where the canyon is only 400 feet 122 m wide.
The following river concessioners provide trips through grand canyon lees ferry to diamond creek 226 river miles 364 km.
This was 14 days of pure joy and adventure.
Kenton grua was born and raised in vernal utah.
Our 16 professional river outfitters are the only commercial rafting companies authorized by the national park service with concession contracts to provide multi day back country guided whitewater rafting trips in grand canyon.
He began college around 1968 but soon dropped out after he was offered a job as a motorman a rubber raft guide for ted hatch in the grand canyon.
There is no longer an airstrip on the north rim of the park.
At age 12 grua was enthralled by a whitewater rafting trip taken with his father on the green river a tributary of the colorado river.
Grand canyon river guides flagstaff arizona.
Rafting grand canyon we are the sixteen official concessioners of the national park service authorized to provide professional guided river trips through the grand canyon national park.
Other grand canyon river rafting trips take on the class 5 rapids head on.
Since 1988 gcrg has been here to watch out for the canyon and to help the guides who work there while making the river experience the best it can be and having a great time along the way.
If you have the desire to travel through the grand canyon via water there is a grand canyon river rafting trip for you.
The primary focus is to hone interpretive training in the cultural natural and human history of grand canyon plus relevant resource management issues.
Many grand canyon river rafting trips depart by van from flagstaff or las vegas and put in at points like lees ferry located about 2 1 2 hours from.
The gts as we call it is the big kahuna of guide training.
I couldn t have asked for a better time.
Grand canyon river guides is a passionate association of folks who know and love the grand canyon like no other.
Some of us are guides many are not.
I wish it never ended.
He was soon after hired by grand canyon dories.
We offer both a land session open to the public and a river session for working guides and trainees.
Grand canyon river guides inc founded in 1988 is unique in that it provides a collective voice for river guides and river runners to.
There were so many highlights from the river guides stories little colorado river being so blue the stars at night so bright the moon at night the critters the hikes were amazing the waterfalls the other customers the food the good times at night.
