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Floating the Grand Canyon - 2025 River Trip Portfolio
July 2, 2025  |  Grand Canyon National Park

We had a great trip this year rafting 226 miles of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. We spent 10 days shooting rapids, hiking into the numerous side canyons, and making photos. We were blessed with great weather for photography, plenty of good food, and we got every camp and photo location we had hoped for...

Rafting the Colorado River Through the Grand Canyon - The 2022 Portfolio
May 24, 2022  |  Grand Canyon National Park

On this date in 1869, the explorer John Wesley Powell and his team set out on an epic journey into "The Great Unknown," a large blank space on the maps of the day, including the Grand Canyon and much of the American Southwest...

Alive Below Crystal - Reflecting on Flipping a Raft in the Colorado River
September 29, 2021  |  Grand Canyon National Park


Two years ago today, I was on day 9 of an 18-day expedition rafting the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon when the raft I was riding in flipped in a major rapid. The flip resulted in me spending time trapped below the raft when a strap or line wrapped around one of my legs...