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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How to Fit Hikes in to a Grand Canyon Self-Support Itinerary
When you tell someone you’re self-support kayaking the Grand Canyon, or that you’re doing a...
Boat Choice
At this point, people have self-support kayaked the Grand Canyon in craft ranging from an...
NPS Grand Canyon Gear Regulations for Kayakers
The National Park Service has a gear list that’s strictly enforced for river trips through...
Example 10-Day Grand Canyon Itinerary
Ever wonder what the itinerary for a 10-day kayak trip down the Grand Canyon might...
Everything You Need to Know About the Grand Canyon Lottery
How The Grand Canyon Lottery Works Grand Canyon permitting used to be governed by a...
Firepan Requirements in the Grand Canyon
The important dimensions are required by the NPS regs: the pan needs to be 300...
Grand Canyon Groovers
In the section of the NPS’s Noncommercial River Trip Regulations entitled “Human Waste Carry-Out Method” (Page...
Why You Should Do a Winter Trip Through the Grand Canyon
Dark, cold, and miserable — that’s what a lot of people expect from a winter...
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