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Spring in Canyonlands
What a great time of year to explore Desert Rivers and Canyons. Canyonlands is a little less forgiving this time of year, but the rewards are what we live for. A big thank you to all our guests. Here are a couple highlights from trips this week.
Chesler Park: A group of backpackers lined up to sing the theme song of Indiana Jones as we ran our Land Cruiser over Elephant Hill in the Needles.
Cataract Canyon: A raven, a great blue heron, and a bald eagle walked into a sand bar. (no joke)
Maze: Fueled with self reliance in remote country we searched to find the most breathtaking views.
Georgie White
Georgie White Clark (1911-1992) is credited as being the first woman to row the Grand Canyon. Some people believe her to be Bessie Hyde from the notorious Honeymoon Couple who disappeared on the Colorado River in 1928. She was an iron-nerved mermaid and a wore a leopard-skin leotard (to hide her engine grease stains). We have a Rigid Hulled Inflatable Boat named after her that runs the Colorado River in Cataract Canyon.
2013 Youth Garden Project auction
Tell your family, tell your friends, and start bidding before others beat you to it! We have donated a trip to Westwater Canyon or Chesler Park place a bid. The Youth Garden Project cultivates healthy children, families and communities through educational programs and the profound act of connecting people with food from seed to table.
GRANDMA
Trip Leader Notes:
"ALL SWAMPERS MUST
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Wash boatmen feet at the end of each day
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Refer to boatmen as Sir
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Walk 10 feet behind boatmen & act like you don't know them when they're talking to chicks
OR ELSE SUFFER THE FATE OF ?"
Camp Kitchens
In 1866 Charles Goodnight took a herd of 2,000 longhorn from Texas, to Denver. The distinguishing feature of his wagon was the box on the rear with a lid that lowered to become the cook's table, the “Chuck Box”.
Almost 150 years later the wagons have been modified but the chuck box remains the headquarters for the back-country outfit. It is more than just a place to eat meals; it’s the social center, where good food is cooked, tall tales told, and the days events recounted.