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Phew! What a ride. A wild ride it was!
It was the largest El Nino event on record in the winter of 1983. There was a chain of "super storms" coming from the Pacific Ocean. A massive snow-melt sent runoff racing down the Colorado River toward the Glen Canyon Dam. This Dam is a 710 foot high wall of concrete set in the Grand Canyon.
While the water level was furiously rising on the night of the full moon, three river guides secretly launched a small hand-built wooden boat called a dory named the Emerald Mile into the Colorado river just below the dam's base. These river guides where trying to make the fastest run down the Colorado river. It usually takes weeks to go down the river. They were trying to do it in hours.
The river was already full of wreckage of commercial rafting trips, injured passengers and even one fatality. With the chaos the rangers were conducting the largest helicopter evacuation in the history of the Grand Canyon National Park.
At the start of reading this book I thought I needed to be a rafter to be able to understand this book. You don't! I listened to this on audio but also read some of the book. This was so fascinating. I experienced the 1983 storms in California with the severe flooding. It was wild.
The history of the Grand Canyon was interesting. This book has sent me down many rabbit holes of Dams and why we have these Dams. Are they more harmful??
This book needs to be a movie! Highly recommend this book!
It was the largest El Nino event on record in the winter of 1983. There was a chain of "super storms" coming from the Pacific Ocean. A massive snow-melt sent runoff racing down the Colorado River toward the Glen Canyon Dam. This Dam is a 710 foot high wall of concrete set in the Grand Canyon.
While the water level was furiously rising on the night of the full moon, three river guides secretly launched a small hand-built wooden boat called a dory named the Emerald Mile into the Colorado river just below the dam's base. These river guides where trying to make the fastest run down the Colorado river. It usually takes weeks to go down the river. They were trying to do it in hours.
The river was already full of wreckage of commercial rafting trips, injured passengers and even one fatality. With the chaos the rangers were conducting the largest helicopter evacuation in the history of the Grand Canyon National Park.
At the start of reading this book I thought I needed to be a rafter to be able to understand this book. You don't! I listened to this on audio but also read some of the book. This was so fascinating. I experienced the 1983 storms in California with the severe flooding. It was wild.
The history of the Grand Canyon was interesting. This book has sent me down many rabbit holes of Dams and why we have these Dams. Are they more harmful??
This book needs to be a movie! Highly recommend this book!