My Grand Canyon visit with environmentalist and wooden dory pioneer Martin Litton began with a thunderous “BOOM” which echoed off the walls of the side canyon and sent us scurrying back to our rafts. Thunder is no a welcome sound while exploring a slot canyon prone to flash flooding, but upon return to our rafts we discovered the true source of the thunder: an exploded air bladder in one of our gear boats, an 18-foot rubber catamaran.
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Jim Heumann says:
Right on! Without Martin’s work there would likely be two dams at the bottom of the grand canyon – how sad that would be. So sorry that he is gone, but happy he was with us for so long.
Michael Appleby says:
Thanks for putting this up. In ’72 I spent the summer as a tour guide on the South Rim and later in the spring spend 10 days on the river in one of those 35 foot rafts. The Grand Canyon is and awsome place … worthy of our respect.