Rafting the Grand Canyon. This month's great read, selected by our editors: Two brothers set out to paddle the Grand Canyon's threatened Colorado River, requiring a steady oar and a surge of courage.

Where, when, why: In May, we ran the rapids of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in wooden dories. We signed up with Oars (Outdoors Adventure River Specialists) a year and a half before ...

It’s difficult to fathom how the Colorado River could possibly carve the mile-deep chasm that is the Grand Canyon. But if one thinks of the river as a flume of liquid sandpaper rubbing the land ...

She was a wild woman who fell in love with the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River the first time she saw it on a Sierra Club outing. But hiking canyon country wasn’t enough for Georgie White ...

On September 10, 2022, a Grand Canyon rafting trip led by Western River Expeditions was running like clockwork—exactly what the four guides wanted for their 31 passengers, many of whom had never ...

Powell first set out for the unknown depths of the Grand Canyon in May 1869 from Green River, Wyoming, with 10 men and four Whitehall wooden boats, designed for travel on harbors and lakes, not ...