just another day in the big ditch |
Grand Canyon for 27 days, too many stories to write down. Here is a bunch of photos with a couple fun words.
Just another beautiful beach |
We Had very varied flow, notice how far the boats are up the beach |
the boats tucked up in the Deer Creek micro eddy |
Brian Newman lining up a big piece at Crystal |
cactus on the way up to the Nankoweap Granaries |
another beautiful sunset |
The scenery never lets up |
Dan lining up the big wave in Crystal |
Dan Wylie hammering Crystal |
Fish, being FISH! |
Fish going big early on in the trip, look closely and spot Jane hunkering down on the front of the boat. |
Fish and Jane finding the sweet spot at Hermit |
Fish deep in Deer Creek Canyon |
classic Grand Canyon shot from the Nankoweap Granaries |
Grease meet water |
Fish with one big Grease bomb |
That is a motley crew |
Marjie matching the travertine water of the Little Colorado |
Koreen and Julie standing in front of Hermit |
Jeff Catlett and his 18 foot boat buried in the good stuff |
Jeff looking like a submarine resurfacing from the depths |
The scale of the Grand Canyon is hard to comprehend, Look close to spot Jeff crushing Hermit |
Marjie, Jane, Minna, Koreen, and Julie playing in front of Elves Casum |
Marjie ditching her kayak and taking the sporty “swim” line |
Chris Baer, with Havasu canyon in the back ground |
Miles, looking for the big line at Hermit |
Miles with a proper Grand Canyon beard |
Minna at Vasey’s Paradis |
Minna thinking about going for a couple more “newmans” before leaving Havasu for a night cruse |
Looking up stream at Phantom Ranch, the true point of no return |
The dark walls and moon a near Christmas Tree Cave |
Jane and Minna creating the sound track to Red Wall Cavern |
De-rigging Project Mayhem in the middle of the night |
Rooster heading down stream on another beautiful February day |
Is that a pyramid? I don’t know but it sure is pretty |
Red Wall Cavern and a little lens flair |
Wes, Miles, and Dan making there way through Deer Creek |
Most of the crew steming around the fridget water in Deer Creek |
Wes, Dan, and Miles making there way down Deer Creek |
We saw snow on the rim the entire trip The temperature difference from the top of the canyon to the bottom is very noticeable. It is typically 5-7 degrees warmer per 1000ft drop in elevation. That means the rim gets snow and we are in T shirts tossing horse shoes.
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got to dry out those underoos some where |
Wes in front of Havasu Canyon |
Grand Canyon 2011 from Chris Baer on Vimeo.
We launched February 5th and took off March 4th, 27 days on water.