We were all warned of the death ray. Not by the outfitter packing in our gear, not by those that had come before us, but by one of our own. He knew of its powers, and urged us to leave early on our supposed 18 mile journey that morning. We left early, but perhaps not …
We awoke around 0830 to this view from our kitchen. No one was on the river yet and we packed up and began the second half of our journey. The lower part of the canyon has significantly more technical water and rapids to navigate. At late summer flows it hardly resembles the rapids during higher …