Books like Tom Martin’s river map and hiking guidebooks provide great information for Grand Canyon trips, but lack knowledge about how to prepare for and execute a self-support kayak trip, and don’t have any kayak-specific beta on rapids, camping, or hikes. This guidebook aims to answer questions about temperatures and daylight at different times of year, how to negotiate the Park Service regulations as a kayaker (i.e. “How to Build Your Own Groover”), shuttle logistics, what hikes work best on a self-support schedule, and more, as well as providing basic advice for undertaking long, self-supported river trips.
The online guidebook is a work in progress and will ultimately become a print guidebook.
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