Grand Canyon Rafting - Life Is About The Moments

Life is about the moments - getting together with loved ones, exploring new places, learning new things, always living in the moment. River rafting through the Grand Canyon offers people unimaginable moments, moments and memories a person can have.

The Grand Canyon rafting months are at an end for 2012, however the memories made will survive. The moments of whitewater and landscapes, meeting new people and making new friends, establishing camp, sleeping under a blanket of stars, camping through the rushing Colorado River won't be forgotten.

Not many people have a Grand Canyon raft trip, but people who do are changed through the experience. Arizona River Runners is definitely an outfitter operating whitewater trips within the Grand Canyon, and many of the rafters share these moments. All passengers - adults, kids, teenagers, seniors - end their trip impacted by the Canyon, the river guides, or anything else they experienced while on the forest. 

For one family it was a springbreak trip in April. Mom wrote, “Two families started the trip with 6 children which were disappointed they were not spending springbreak relaxing in the Bahamas. After hiking to North Canyon's beautiful grotto on Easter morning, playing football in Redwall Cavern, hiking to Eminence Break, swimming within the chilly Little Colorado, the petro-glyph hike and reaching the top of Tabernacle, our youngest proclaimed ‘…the Canyon changes you man!’” The moments these families shared were priceless.

Another woman was relayed through her husband he had just booked the holiday. “’It looked like fun and was on my small bucket list,’ he said. She responded, ‘That could be HIS bucket list. Where did which come from anyway? I had never camped, and i'm a 5 star hotel girl. Which means you know I was apprehensive as you would expect. Once we got to Lees Ferry and also the guides explained everything I felt far better. On the trip I searched and saw a 78 years old man, he was doing the trip for that second time! I thought if he is able to do it so can I. This trip made my hubby and me closer. Thanks Arizona River Runners to find the best experience ever!’”

A mother took a household rafting trip with her son. They are her words and thoughts, “On the very first night I thought ‘why didn't I just read the fine print?’ I thought I would be over sleeping tents. I thought I would be lazing around for six days, going for the occasional boat ride. I checked out at my 11 year old son with me at night and for the first time in years I knew i was having the same thought, ‘How shall we be going to get through this?’ Within the next 6 days I've never been colder or hotter or hungrier or even more completely stuffed. I've never experienced seeing light or black at darkness. There have been moments of exhilaration once we rumbled through a rapid and moments of exhaustion once we set up camp in a storm. This experience woke me up. I possibly could not get through it with my head elsewhere. So the further we transpired the river, the more alive I felt. After i looked over at my son as we had set up our cots around the 4th night, I said ‘We're carrying this out. We're actually doing this!’ And that he was as astonished when i was; he nodded and said ‘Yeah we're!!’ I can't explain why Personally i think changed by the experience or nearer to my son. I can just learn that my son and that i laugh a lot more now than we did prior to the trip and when I close my eyes and say ‘Jonah, are you able to hear it?’ both of us hear the sound, the important wash of the Colorado River. It stays along with you. Thank you for a once in a lifetime, amazing experience."

The actual theme of all these testimonials is the fact that rafting the Colorado River is really a trip of a lifetime, and the more you decide to go, the more you see, do, learn, and experience. One river rafter said this about his trip rafting with the Grand Canyon, “This was my fifth whitewater trip in six years! It had been fun meeting old friends (the guides) the very first day. Every day is fun and adventurous: great hikes, the strain of the rapids. Some things are the same every year, but others are new and adventurous. Water levels will vary, different people. New guides, old guides, guides from previous trips on other boats along with other companies. I prefer rowed (oar trips). It gets you all the way down on the river and a lot of personal action using the guides. You become old friends. Those are the Keepers of the River. Okay what is the worst day? The last day since it is over! I'm 77 years of age. My 6th trip? The coming year? Possibly...”

This rafter realized an aspiration come true - a 50th special birthday, quality time with family and friends on the Grand Canyon raft trip. "The best benefit was being able to spend time with family and friends, while enjoying among the country's natural wonders, the Grand Canyon around the river. This was how I desired to spend my 50th birthday - with family and friends. Arizona River Runners exceeded our expectations. Safety was initially and foremost from beginning to end. Each portion of the trip was outstanding and would try it again." 

Looking for a few of life’s special moments? Have the desire for a new experience, in order to re-live a favorite one? Take a Grand Canyon rafting trip; they're about life and every day life is about the moments.

About Arizona River Runners

River rafting through the Grand Canyon provides a unique view of one of the most popular natural wonders around the globe. Experience the adventure of a lifetime on the Grand Canyon rafting trip with Arizona River Runners. Since 1970 they've provided all-inclusive Grand Canyon whitewater trips with customized rafts, all of the camping and rafting gear, and food for the family rafting trip.