Kayak Grand Canyon River Trips

Thanks for your interest in doing a Grand Canyon river trip with me. I grew up near the Canyon, I have been exploring there for most of my life, and I have made over twenty Colorado River trips. The more I travel to distant regions, the more I appreciate this natural wonder in my backyard. I am always struck by a simple realization whenever I return—a river trip through Grand Canyon is a world-class adventure. The weather is usually nice, the whitewater is exciting, and the scenery is just unbelievable. Vast open deserts, dark narrow gorges, tumbling spring-fed creeks, fern grottoes, legendary rapids; the Canyon holds all of these things, and a river trip down the Colorado is a perfect way to explore it all. Well, honestly it would take several lifetimes to explore it all, but we can at least try!

There is no other trip in the world like paddling through Grand Canyon. Every kayaker should have it on their must-do list, but you’ve heard all that before. Besides, if I had to sell a paddler on Grand Canyon, they wouldn’t be the person I’d want to run it with anyway. So I’ll tell you why I take a Canyon trip every year—peace. On a Grand Canyon trip, you are insulated from the complex distracting world that so many of us escape through whitewater paddling. The Canyon takes two weeks to paddle. Cell phones do not work there. River time rules your days; wake in the womb of the Canyon, eat breakfast, pack the boats, float, hike, surf, snack, nap, surf again, unload the boats, chill, eat again, collapse into bed beneath a sky of bright stars. Repeat again and again and again. Let’s go boating!

Click here to see a slide show of images from one of our recent river trips.

Click here to contact Tyler about reserving your spot on his next Grand Canyon trip in autumn 2012.