High Mountain Doings

From 8200 feet along one side of the Upper Arkansas River Valley in central Colorado, my blog is about many things: travel including river and bicycle trips, and other experiences as well. The focus is on photography, not lots of text.

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Two Grand Canyon Guides

Walt helps run a Spanish language school in Costa Rica. He guides about two Grand Canyon river trips each year but spends most of his time at the Spanish school. One of the three campuses is pictured above (photo from the school's site at www.adventurespanishschool.com)



Tom left home at age 13 with a thousand dollars. He spent most of his remaining teen years living on the beach west of Los Angeles. He's 42 now, and this may have been his last trip as a Grand Canyon guide. In my opinion, Tom is one of the most skillful river guides I've known. You don't overpower rivers, you do it with finesse. He told me that many years ago, he'd come down the canyon for the rapids. But more recently, he's just wanted to show this wonderful Grand Canyon to others.

Labels: , ,

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home