Tips for Planning a Grand Canyon Rafting Trip

📌Save this post for how to on planning a Grand Canyon rafting trip! 21 days in the Grand Canyon is soul food. The experiences that make us feel most alive and enrich us are those that expose, push, ground us and feed our truest sense of what it means to be a human, of this earth. Here are some tips on getting on the river yourself if this inspires you and feels like the right spice of adventure you’d like to flavor your life. 1. Fill out an application and apply for a non-commercial Grand Canyon River Permit at grcariverpermits.nps.gov (29,000 get to raft the Grand Canyon every year) 1. If a friend asks you on their permit, say YES 2. Find non-commercial guides through sources like facebook groups. vet and recruit accordingly. 3. Hire a river outfitter to supply you with boats, food and gear. We used Canyon REO and they were FABULOUS 4. Purchase or rent dry suits, PFD’s, and necessary gear (excluding boats, amo cans and kitchen equip) 5. Recruit 7 to 15 of your raddest friends (would need one experienced rower per boat, others can learn). 6. Choose dates and your meal plan 7. Load in at Lee’s Ferry and Pull out at either Diamond or Pierce Ferry locations (river goes 300+ miles from Lake Powell to Lake Mead) 8. Pack as if you’re glamping (I’ll have tips later on my favorite gear that made me comfortable the entire trip) 9. Prepare to leave the digital world behind, be completely self reliant with you and your group for the duration of your trip, and expect to have the grandest human powered adventure of your life filled with: rafting, camping fun, epic hiking, stunning views, colors that will blow your mind, canyoneering opportunities and lots of wilderness survival chores lol. Stay tuned for more info on this 21 day life altering journey through the canyon. PS. I’m sitting on an amo can booster seat to increase core strength leverage because I’m 5ft tall. If i can do these things and be below average height and so average shape, YOU CAN DEFINITELY DO THIS TOO :)