Rafting the Grand Canyon in 1896

solo wooden boat running the colorado river
Launching in Green River, Wyoming On August 27, 1896, George Flavell and Ramon Montez launched their homemade, fifteen-and-a-half-foot boat, the Panthon, from Green River, Wyoming. The two intended to raft the Green River across Wyoming and Utah, to the Colorado River, and on through the Grand Canyon ending in Yuma, AZ.  The trip had only
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Running Lava Falls Rapid

shows size of the V-wave in Lava Falls Rapid on the Colordao River
Lava Falls, Grand Canyon National Park One hundred seventy-nine miles downstream from Lees Ferry on the Colorado River sits Lava Falls Rapid. With a difficulty rating of 10 on the 1-10 Grand Canyon scale (Class V on the international scale of river difficulty), Lava Falls is arguably the most famous whitewater rapid in the world.
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Jon Hamilton Up Run of the Colorado River through Grand Canyon

Jon Hamilton’s 1960’s Up Run New Zealander, Jon Hamilton, the son of jet boat inventor Bill Hamilton, led the first successful upstream run of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, arriving at Lee’s Ferry with three of the four boats after one sank in Grapevine Rapid, on July 12.  Previous attempts had been made
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