Lava Falls—rated Class 10 on the canyon system—is notoriously difficult. In 1869, John Wesley Powell and his team picked up their wooden boats and carried them around these rough waters. Since then, ...
It’s generous to say that it took until just after the eight-minute mark in the second quarter of Oregon’s visit to New Jersey to prove what... Despite being on a two game skid, and facing a ranked ...
The raft was lined up perfectly for the massive rapid. The Colorado-based team — eight accomplished paddlers on sliding seats atop a 48-foot custom raft designed to fly down the Grand Canyon — was on ...
WATERSPORTS -- Jonah Grubb of Coeur d'Alene didn't have to worry about taking a bath on the recent day he guided rafters through the Grand Canyon's notoriously wet and wild Lava Falls rapid. This ...
When friends and media and everyone else were fixated on a failed world record attempt, Matt Norfleet was simply grateful to be alive and well. On Jan. 13, just an hour before midnight, the Summit ...
HUNCHED IN A DORY dropping into one of the most storied rapids in the world’s grandest canyon, I’m surprised by all that I hear. The crash of water echoes off the granite walls around me, but so do ...
The raft was lined up perfectly for the massive rapid. The Colorado-based team — eight accomplished paddlers on sliding seats atop a 48-foot custom raft designed to fly down the Grand Canyon — was on ...