Day 16: Rafting

Floated 22 miles to Mile 202 Camp. Your Intrepid Reporter rowed all day, giving Terry Markoff a break. I can report without equivocation that rowing a raft through the Grand Canyon is very hard work. My helmet's off to Steve, Catherine, Mark, and Terry for shepherding all our heavy gear for 18 daze in the Canyon!
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Columnar Basalt, showing what looks like nematic order. For scale, note that the "small fuzz" at the edge of the rock face is composed of 8-foot-tall bushes.

Your Intrepid Reporter at the oars. (Thanx to Terry for shooting this one.)

A large obelisk of columnar basalt.

Anasazi pictographs, near Parashant Wash, Mile 198.

Your Humble Reporter points to an Ocotillo, harbinger of the Sonoran Desert. Craig was nice enough to shoot this photo.

More pictographs.

Jeff getting set to cook.

A Velvet Ant in camp. These ladies are actually wasps, and they're known to be ill-tempered.

Scott, Jeff, Steve, and Terry's good side at sunrise.

The sun casting shadows on the canyon walls.

Sunrise from camp.

The view downstream of a raft and a peak.