September 2022 Grand Canyon Trip

 

John, Tom and Fred in 16 foot raft on April 2002 trip

Welcome to our 'organizing the trip' web site.  Please let me know if you have things to add or want changed.  Latest Status of the trip listed in reverse chronological order...

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Photos from our trip

Mark's photos added to Tom's Google Photos

Holly and Michael's photos

Tom's photos and Lava Falls videos

AJ's clips of the Saskatchewan River Pirates

Tha Arrogant Worms - The Last Saskatchewan Pirate

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9/8/2022 Mile Planner (PDF) for our trip.

9/7/2022 Tim's updated plan (PDF) and Canyon REO email.

9/6/2022 Vern got covid so Melinda will take his place, Pete will take over Vern's boat and Melinda has replaced Vern on the assignments.

8/31/2022 Tim's updated plan (PDF), 30 Day confirmation  email from Canyon REO, Important links (PDF) email from Canyon REO and email from Grand Canyon National Park (PDF).

8/28/2022 Here are our assignments for our raft trip and some instructions on how we have things set up:

  • When we arrive at camp, everyone should help set up the kitchen before setting up their tents so the cook crew can get started on dinner. Most kitchen stuff will be on Tom’s boat which will have the big kitchen box and lunch cooler.
  • 3 people on cook crew and the camps start at dinner then breakfast and lunch the next day.  You are on for three days in a row.  The idea is a new person comes on each camp and is trained by the two people who have already been on the crew the day before.  One person usually pulls the food from the coolers and crates using the boat maps we write up when we rig the rafts.  The food in the cooler is marked by the camp number.  Breakfast dishes are put in a heavy duty garbage bag and placed in the big kitchen box to be washed by the clean up crew when we first get to the next camp.  Everyone needs to wash their hands before preparing food and before eating dinner.  We don’t want people getting sick.
  • 2 people are on toilet crew for 2 days with a new person coming on each camp.  As with the cook crew, the new person gets trained by the person who was on the day before.  The toilet crew is responsible for setting up the hand washing stations both by the toilet and the kitchen.  The toilet should be set up right away when we get to camp.  The toilet crew should not help in the kitchen and should wash their hands after the toilet is set up.
  • 2 people are on clean up crew with a new person coming on each camp.  As with the cook crew, the new person gets trained by the person who was on the day before.  When we get to camp and have the kitchen and toilet set up, the clean up crew will do the breakfast dishes.  For dinner the crew should eat first so they can set up the 4  pots for people to clean their dishes when people are done eating.  If the cook crew burns a pot, they are responsible for cleaning it not the clean up crew.
  • Each camp box has a lunch bag and during breakfast the cook crew needs to pull stuff including any utensils and the menu needed for lunch and place it in the lunch bag which then goes in the lunch cooler.

8/5/2022 Louis dropped off the trip and added Alice.  Took 4 people off waiting list.

7/15/2022 Tim's updated plan (PDF), updated link to Canyon REO orientation videos and our planned menu (PDF) for the trip.

4/5/2022 Tim's updated plan (PDF) and time to get your full payment in by April 30th.

3/17/2022 Update REO documents on REO links and add Judith and Bruce to wait list.

1/16/2022 Tim's updated plan (PDF).

1/2/2022 Add Marlene, Charlie and Jody to wait list.

12/28/2021 Add Riley to trip and Melinda, Dick and Susan to wait list.

11/06/2021 Add Louis to trip, remove Andy and Mia (Congrats to them as they are expecting  their first child!) and remove Caroly from wait list.  Tim's updated plan (PDF).

10/05/2021 Add Pete to trip and remove Jane.  First one off the waiting list!

03/09/2021 Canyon REO sent us the following info on our trip: Trip Leader Handbook, Menu Planner, Trip Cliff Notes, Trip Logistics Checklist, Equipment Inventory and Timetables.

03/05/2021 Tim gets a quote (PDF) from Canyon REO with good discounts and reviews it with Tom and Bill.  We decided to accept the quote and Tim put down $750 deposit to reserve all equipment for our trip.

02/27/2021 Our initial plan (PDF) for our trip done up by Tim.

02/25/2021 Bill Kinner wins our lottery trip and he is the only one of us to win the lottery. 

 

Wednesday September 14  Trip 

Tim Strauch, Trip Leader and Boatman 18 foot raft

Tom Strauch, Boatman 18 foot raft and Food Organizer

Bill Kinner, Lottery Winner this trip

Polk Burleson, Boatman 18 foot raft

Holly Strauch, Boatwoman 18 foot raft

Pete Rysted, Boatman 18 foot raft

Bob Jackson

Sam Strauch

Michael Solwold

Ron Webb

AJ Fedoruk

Ray Galley

Mark Sutton

Alice Clark

Riley Kennedy

Melinda J D'Ouville

Wait List

Judith Bamberger

Bruce Napier

 

Canyon REO links and PDFs for our trip

* the Grand Canyon River Courtesy brochure (https://grcariverpermits.nps.gov/pdf/BeCoolBrochure.pdf)

* the Action Guide to Preservation, Colorado River (https://grcariverpermits.nps.gov/pdf/GRCA_ActionGuidetoPreservation.pdf)

          Other videos and links