Belknap's Waterproof Grand Canyon River Guide All New Edition

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Belknap's Waterproof Grand Canyon River Guide All New Edition Editorial Review:
Mile by mile color Waterproof Guide to the Colorado River through Grand Canyon with shaded relief/topographic maps, and special sections on history, archaeology, geology, natural history and photography. New for 2009: Updated with campsites and new USGS Mileage Points

Customer Reviews:
Good for Grand Canyon raft passengers
This book is good for Grand Canyon rafting passengers, but it does not replace some of the better guide books for rowing the river.

We took this book along with the Rivermaps LLC guide book for our 21 day private trip. While this book has some good trivia type information about the river, a good wild life and plant section, and a good geologic section, it is no match for the Rivermaps LLC as a river runners book. It simply lacks critical information and detail about rapids.

For the raft passenger on a commercial trip I would recommend this book so you can follow along where you are and know whats coming up, and look up any plants or wildlife you see. Its also great to have river books like these to make notes in about where you camped, where you had a good hike, or even where you had a nice lunch. However if you are planning on rowing the river on a private trip this is no replacement for the Rivermaps LLC book.

A "must have" for Colorado river rafters!
This book is, or should be, required reading before and during a trip through the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River. It is absolutely chock full of information, pictures, and tips on making the trip incredible. It should be read before the trip, in the morning to review the day's planned river section, in the evening to recap the day's trip, and as a daily log (with a waterproof marker) for a keepsake. This book is outstanding, and almost as important as dry clothes in making the trip pleasurable.

Grand Canyon whitewater rrafting
This is the perfect book of maps and descriptions of the rock formations to be seen in the Grand Canyon's Colorado River!!

very useful
I used this book during a recent GC trip, and its detailed waterproof pages were never far from my eyes as we navigated rapid after rapid. The geology detail is unusually good and very useful for a geologist such as myself to orient just which rocks are exposed where. I highly recommend.

This Belknap Waterproof got a real test in the river.
On the second day of our rafting trip through the lower Grand Canyon we got to far to the left on rapid 231 and our raft overturned dumping eight of us in the water along with our gear. I had Belknap's Waterproof Grand Canyon River Guide in my day pack which I though was secured, but the strap securing it broke and the pack went through the rapids, along with most of us, and was later fished out by one of the other boats. When I got it and checked it out it was fine other than the water causing the pages to stick together somewhat. But, it was in very good shape and proved to be a very useful guide throughout the four day trip.

I highly recommend this book if you are planning a trip down the Colorado river through the Grand Canyon. Besides being an excellent guide to the entire canyon experience and the rapids encountered, it also gives interesting historical information and many pictures of things you'll want to see for yourself. It's not a book for river guides, but is great for the rest of us.

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