Grand Canyon 2010

(click for images from Grand Canyon in Winter 2009)

Images are from a  visit to Toroweap Overlook (above) and

then an Eight Day Raft Trip with Canyon Explorations. 

Photos are not presented in any particular order.

Riding the rapids.

Reflections

Mules in silhouette, crossing Kaibab Trail Bridge

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Floating quietly through a variety of rock strata

    Toroweap and stars and at dawn

  Overlook at sunrise, start of Day 3.

    Fresh water bath

    North Rim Aspens

  Juniper on the rim, near Toroweap

    Brown glass surface, below Little Colorado River

  Moonrise near Lee's Ferry

  Looking down on streambed with residue salts

  Cactus along the trail

  Rock with turquoise intrusion

  Grand Canyon colors in pebbles

  Compressed layers in side canyon

Navigating the layers in side canyon walks

  Desert plants and rock color

  Mule deer at the side of the river    Antlers left to bleach

  Grand Canyon Rattlesnake with blending coloring

    Sense of scale on river

Reflections

  Plateau terrain

    Through a rapid

  Ruth in Ducky

  Bighorn Sheep

        Side Canyon waterfalls

    Blue Heron sunning and posing

    Cruising, with the scale of the walls

        Lunch breaks

  Gus rowing

  Near Toroweap on North Rim

    Entering a rapid

    Dinner preparations

  First day, with storm clearing

          At Redwall Cavern 

(see also a web link to a 360 degree panorama)

    Vic in Ducky, with paddle boat 

    Ducky down

         Justin in action with map, guitar, ...

  Waterfall from between rock layers

  Walk in Cremation Creek side canyon

        Camp Stops

  Helicopter rescue

  From Navajo Bridge, near Lee's Ferry

Riding rapids

    Guides assessing rapids

  Launch at Lee's Ferry

  Native American grain storage

    Gus and Linda

  Monkey Flower

    Lynn in Ducky

  Boats waiting for hikers

  Canyon silhouette

  Charly's crystals with Black Widow Spider eggs

  Paddle boat in rapid

      Laura with the supply boat 

  Paul checking the map

Paddle boat adventures

  Dry waterfall reveals underlying white sandstone

Fossil fern

  Ron at oars

    Charly getting ready to take off; taking photo

    Ernie in Ducky

  Overlook from morning hike.

  Gibby and the brothers

  Hidden side slot canyon

  Beginnings of the canyon, near Lee's Ferry

  Chuckwalla juvenile with mother;    The mother

  Toroweap at dawn

  Exploring an hollowed part of rock wall

  Tadpole

    Mixing the waters, Colorado and Little Colorado

  Ducky used to check water flow in rapids.

  Quiet color and texture

  From the North Rim Lodge

  Crushing cans

  Toad visitor

  On the road to Toroweap

  At Lee's Ferry

  Station at Flagstaff

  Lava Falls from Toroweap

  Paddle party from Toroweap

  Sunset on the rim

  Flagstaff Train Station

    Navajo Bridge

The Traveler

Photos were taken with a Canon D10 (waterproof point and shoot),

Canon S5 IS (advanced point and shoot), and a Canon 40D (SLR, at Toroweap).  

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