Special Issue: We’re Back / Scoping Scoop / A Mistake? / Unlikely Stories / The Viking / Long Gone Juan The Grand Canyon THE Private Boaters Association y Waiting List Quarterly Volume Six, Number Three A Forum For Canyon River Runners Fall 2003 / $5oo ANCIENT RIVER RUNNERS? page two THE Waiting List THE GCPBA RIVER BOOKSTORE Five New Titles & Some Favorites! ✰NEW! Day Hikes From the River ~ 2nd Edition - River runner Tom Martin’s excellent revised second edition features 25 more hikes for a total of 100 hikes you can take from river cams! Illustrated with 100 maps ~ $19.95 + $4 shipping. Total: $23.95 ✰NEW! Wilderness Medical Associates Field Guide ~ Every river runners first aid kit should include a coy of this spiral bound, water resistant guide to medical emergencies, from minor to evacuations. Spiral Bound, color illustrated, 4.25 x 5.75 inches, pocket sized, 98 pages ~ $19.95 + $4 shipping. Total: $23.95 ✰NEW! Ann Weiler Walka’s rose and poem bring to life one of the Colorado’s most beautiful and unknown tributaries, the Escalante. Walking the Unknown River and Other Travels In Escalante Country ~ $13.00 + $4 shipping. Total: $17oo ✰NEW! Nobody tells a river story better than Katie Lee. Here’s Katie’s best, All My Rivers Are Gone — memories and thoughts of better days along the Colorado in Glen Canyon. In these days of increasing enviro-thoughtlessness, this is a must read! 261 pages. $18oo + $4 shipping.Total: $22oo ✰NEW! Outward Bound Wilderness First Aid Handbook Sorry, no cover picture, but this near text book of outdoor medical help is used by Wilderness Medical Associates as art of their classroom and field training. This easy to read an understand is an excellent companion to the Field Guide, you’ll be glad to have this book along! $14.95 + $4 shipping. Total: $18.95 Over the Edge: DEATH IN GRAND CANYON An outstanding book by Dr. Tom Myers, author of GCPBA’s “Ammo Can Doc,” and Michael Ghiglieri author of the popular book Canyon, as well as a long time river guide. The authors have researched and compiled the story of every known death in the Grand Canyon from air disasters, hiking bloopers, suicides and boating accidents. 408 pages. $22.95 shipping $4 ea. Total: $26.95 SUNK WITHOUT A SOUND River runners love a mystery and the disappearance of the honeymoon river runners, Glen and Bessie Hyde in 1928 has been the source of speculation for more than seven decades. Did Bessie kill Glen, and then come back to the Colorado to tell her tale years later? You’ll find out when you read this fast-aced book from award-winning author and river runner, Brad Dimock. 280 pages ~ paperback $18oo shipping $4 ea. Total: $22oo THE DOING OF THE THING ~ the Brief Brilliant Whitewater Career of Buzz Holmstrom This 1998 National Outdoor Book Award winner recounts the life of pioneer Private river runner Buzz Holmstrom, who in 1937 launched his home-built boat at Green River, Wyoming and travelled 1100 miles alone all the way to Hoover Dam on the Colorado. Less than ten years later the celebrated Holmstrom was found dead along side the Grande Ronde river in Oregon, a bul- let in his head. Why? This is one great tale, recounting travels and travails along the Green and Colorado, as they may never be again. paperback, 292 pages, $20oo shipping $4 ea. Total: $24oo With every order, you’ll receive a GCPBA sticker! What a deal! How To Order Order books or posters by mail! Take a piece of paper, fill it out with your name and shipping address, write down the titles of the books you want, the number of copies of each title, total it u, add $4 shipping for EACH book ordered and send your request along with a check or money order to: GCPBA River Bookstore, Box 2133, Flagstaff, AZ 86003-2133. We’ll send them to you via USPO priority Mail, múy pronto. The profit from the sale of books is used to support the activities of all volunteer GCPBA, a 501c3 non-profit corporation. Thanks! Fall 2003 page ON THE PRES~EDITORS DECK The Future Is One Minute Away utting one of these magazines together is like assembling a million little pieces of this and that and trying to make a cohesive whole out it. It's a frustrating process that hopefully pro- Pduces something that informs, entertains and in general brings about a feeling of satisfaction. So it must be for the Park planners who are now zeroing in on the unveiling of their "draft proposals" —those being the proposals that will show all of us the direction of the planners thinking and how that is going to affect our opportunity to have a Grand Canyon river trip experience. To say the NPS hasn't gone the extra mile, or in river running terms rowed 'round and 'round the eddy, to let all ideas get on board would be wrong. No planning process that I know of has received so much on going attention from it's constituents. More than 13,000 individual submissions with more than 55,000 comments. Now that's a pile of input to categorize and analyze. This issue of the Waiting List focuses on those comments, and on another effort of the NPS, the series of Stakeholder Meetings held in January and June. To be sure, at the Stakeholder Meetings not everything was "just right"— I didn't get to say "exactly" what I wanted to say, nor did anyone else, I'm sure. Hands were popping up all over the place. But most importantly, we were all heard. I urge you to take the time to read the summaries included in this issue. I'm also going to urge you to read the forthcoming (sometime after Christmas) NPS "draft proposals." This is where the meat is going to be found. You'll want to comment, you'll want the NPS to know what you think about how they pro- pose to mange the on river aspect of your park. How will the park address the big issues? Timely access and a feeling of being treated fairly, as an equal stakeholder amongst all the other constituents. A feeling that we private boaters don't currently enjoy. Will Park planners pile on regulation after regulation resulting in one group or another feeling as if they have been punished? Or will they figure a way around the quagmire that has held river runners fast in an antiquated system, essentially unchanged since 1979. The GCPBA Board is going to break into work groups to analyze each of the proposals—rumored to be eight or nine at the time of this writing and we'll report back to you what we think. We'll be paying particular attention to that "feel- ing of fairness." We are looking for a split of recreational allocation, commercial 50%—non-commercial 50% for starters. Read the proposals yourself and find out how close Park thinking comes to yours. Let the Park know what you think, and let us here in the GCPBA Tower know what you think. So many kudo's to the Park staff, from Superintendent Joe Alston, head planner Rick Ernenwein, Jeff Cross, Linda Jalbert and all those other folks from all the various departments in the GCNP for taking the seemingly very sincere time to work with all of us. In river metaphor, we're all getting ready to scout Crystal and move on down to Lava, we'll be there sometime in 2004. So here we are, pay attention, let's get on down to the big fun without any flips. Richard "Ricardo" Martin President, Editor, Grand Canyon Private Boaters Association y PS— We hope you can all join us in Salt Lake City for our annual meeting, Sunday afternoon, November 2nd. Details can be found elsewhere in this issue and in your mail box. We’re planning some kind of no host get together on Saturday night and hope to meet all you folks that can make it. PPS—the next issue of the Waiting List is underway. Hopefully we’ll have a lot to report concerning “draft proposals.” We’ll also feature a great two part story from Katie Lee and another from noted outdoor author and river runner, Pam Houston, some nice artwork from Julia Holland and Lee Bennion and reports about whatever’s happening in the river world we love. page four THE Waiting List A MATTER OF OPINION The Park Service Misses t’s late June, and I have just returned from the Park Service’s stakeholders meeting in Phoenix. I flew back to Washington, DC feeling disappointment in the content and scope of the two Idays of discussion, as well as the outcome. The three objectives of this meeting were to (1) clarify input received during scoping; (2) clarify areas of agreement and disagreement among participants on what the Park should include in a full range of reasonable alternatives for allocation and use of motorized boats in the CRMP Environment Impact Statement (EIS); and (3) promote good will among stakeholders and between stakeholders and the Park. I would be very surprised if these I would be very tion. As long as the focus was on meetings accomplished any of these goals. surprised if these recreational use issues, then that Further, if the Park learned anything new or meeting accomplished should have been the focus on the useful, then they are way behind the 8-ball in selection of participants. The the planning process.