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Book your tours with the Boulder Outdoor Center.
Lodore was the first major canyon encountered by John Wesley Powell and his men on their 1869 expedition. Powells adventures live on in the rapids he named: Disaster Falls, Triplet Falls and Hells Half Mile. Set aside as an American treasure in 1938 under the National Park system, this canyon is a sanctuary for bighorn sheep, deer and other friendly critters.
Your 44-mile trip starts at the Gates of Lodore where two 800-foot buttresses mark the beginning of a series of canyons. You will see vermillion cliffs cut from Precambrian bedrock in Lodore canyon, then leapfrog through time as you cross a geologic fault in Echo Park, and see rock reflect the colors of a rainbow on your last day at the entrance to Split Mountain Gorge.
The whitewater is technical, and that means your guides oars will be busy as a bees wings, making quick cuts and dodges to keep the self-bailing raft headed for the clear chutes and clean waves. In the 1870s Pat Lynch, a hermit who lived at Echo Park, used to visit his neighbors by floating downstream with a log. When we reach Echo Park well blow up an inflatable kayak just in case you want to leave your neighbors on the raft for some personal, paddling fun. Associated with Holiday Expeditions.
Keywords: Raft, Raft trips, Rafting, Colorado rafting, adventure rafting
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