Would You Like A Kilt Rendezvous That Went Downriver Through The Grand Canyon?

[Dale-of-Cedars]

Pass, got that out of my system at Vernon Army Cadet Camp in 1974. Rafting down the Shuswap River in high water and found out why they call toppled trees hanging into the river "sweepers". We came around a bend right into one, and it cleared the raft. Spent some fun few seconds under the raft in among the branches, but we got everyone back in and continued. Builds character!

(not my picture, but the same river, and we had baseball caps [temporarily] instead of helmets.)

I enjoyed the canoeing more; a large raft filled with water is nigh unstoppable for a scrawny teenager... we found out later that if they had known the conditions were as fast as they were, the raft trip would have been cancelled. So going with experienced people, on a river like the Colorado that the guides know well, should have more excitement and less terror Not trying to talk anyone out of going!