Thanks to Off Center Member Nathan Lunstrum for submitting this new Flotsam Video:
The late Martin Litton believed the best way for people to understand how important it was to preserve the Grand Canyon was to have them experience this secret world from the river, but not in just any boat. Martin Litton’s Grand Canyon Dories pioneered whitewatering on the Colorado River in the 1960€™s and started a proud tradition of naming the boats after wild places that had been lost or compromised by the hand of man.
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Lyle Russell says:
Are the plans for the Grand Canyou dories available anywhere?
michael herz says:
In 1950, at 14, I got to run the San Juan & Colorado Rivers from Blanding to Lee’s Ferry before Glen Canyon Dam & Lake Powell & to see Rainbow Bridge while it was still a cathedral & not yet a lakeside playground for twits. That intense river experience made me the ocean protector & Baykeeper I am today.
Michael Werneburg says:
Fill your years with life, not your life with years. Truly this man has done that. Long, long live his memory!
Martin (Marty) Casey says:
After reading the Emerald Mile I stumbled on some you tube footage of the actual river runs written about. Particularly the epic run through Lava Falls.
Mike Schrader says:
Glad I am finally in. Thanks. Now I just need a new computer to keep this up.
Clint Chase says:
What a beautiful story. Emerald Mile did something to me, and this film caused those feelings to gurgle back up. Something like….I need to go. But yet something a bit deeper feeling, too.
Lyle Russell says:
Are the plans for the Grand Canyou dories available anywhere?
Paul Cammaroto says:
This is a Great Piece. Thank you for Sharing.
If someone would like a bit more depth to this River Dory Story, an excellent book was written by Kevin Fedarlo called THE EMERALD MILE. A fabulous Story of a mighty River and the Boatmen who Ride it.
Thanks
Jerry Hickman says:
Truly lucky we are b/c of Martin Litton !
David Jeffery says:
One of the great experiences to be on one of those dories. Some rapids change after rockfalls. When I was there the boatmen wanted to be A B C–Alive Below Crystal. We river riders had to scramble along the shore to watch the boatmen make that run safely with some boats taking heavy dings. Great film. Thanks for putting it on the site. And thanks to Martin Litton and all who came with him and after him.
Philip Myer says:
Wonderful- great man.