The Grand Canyon TH E Private Boaters Association y Wai t i ng List Quarterly Volume Six, Number Two A Forum For Canyon River Runners Winnter 2002-2003 / $4oo Can Canyon Use Be Expanded? page two THE Waiting List TH E GCPBA RI V E R BO O K S T O R E Five New Titles & Some Favorites! PNEW! 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 camps! Illustrated with 100 maps ~ $19.95 + $4 shipping. Total: $23.95 PNEW! Wilderness Medical Associates Field Guide ~ Every river runners first aid kit should include a copy 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 PNEW! Ann Weiler Walka’s prose 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 PNEW! 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 PNEW! 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 part 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 P. Ghiglieri author of the popular book Canyon, as well as a long time river pro. 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-paced 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! rMail Orders 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 up, add $4 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. Or~ You may order and pay for books online at: www.gcpba.org Either way, we’ll send them to you via USPO Priority Mail, múy pronto. Winter 2002 / 2003 page three From the “Pres-editors” Deck rand Canyon National Park planners toil away analyzing and categorizing the more than G15,000 comments generated in the Scoping meetings held across country in the summer and fall of 2002. Working hard to meet a court imposed deadline that will impose a new and hopefully better method for river runners to gain access to the Grand Canyon. As this issue of the Waiting List goes to press, another, and unique phase of the CRMP project is about to unfold. At the end of January, nearly 100 people will, come together to participate in workshops being conducted by NPS contractor Mary Orton. The meetings will be broken into two elements, the first being a gathering of “experts” who will be tackling Canyon recreational use carrying capacity and allocation alternatives facing GCNP planners. The second be being a gathering of “stakeholders”—folks like you and me who are passionate about matters that directly concern us—how we’ll get on the Colorado River and how long that might take. Who are the experts? Nineteen folks from a wide variety backgrounds but all related to issues of the recreational use of our nations natural resources. There are planners, scientists, mathematicians, and professors. We’ll all be interested in hear- ing what they have to say. Back to the stakeholders, that’s us. that GCNP planners are creating a sense of MS Orton consulted with a large number of “fairness” throughout this process. folks to determine what groups of people It should be noted that these meetings might be interested in the planning process are being conducted as an effort from GCNP and ought to be included in talks designed to to keep citizens involved in the process all the focus on what characteristics of any new sys- way through. The NPS has looked for ways to tem might be either desirable or not in a new do this, prompted by requests to do so from access system. Additionally, stakeholders will constituents. These meetings are a first for the be reviewing the “spectrum of services” Park. So kudos to Park Service. offered to river runners by Park concession- We’ll keep you posted as to how these aires. photo by Julia Holland meetings work out. Who are the stakeholders? Pretty interesting. We river Beginning on the next page, you can read an runners most often think of ourselves as the obvious choice—it’s excellent piece by former river manager Earl Perry on our problem, we’re the ones that count. And that’s true, but so do the subject of Canyon carrying capacity. The article is a host of other folks who will be impacted by a new river plan. based on studies using the GC River Trip Simulator. Obviously outfitters, their patrons and employees will be affected, Earl and Ben Harding spent a lot of time gathering so will researchers and scientists, the Indian Nations that border and running scenarios that might be implemented in a the river and the Park, educational users, Wilderness people and new plan. handicapped lovers of the outdoors. Finally, the GCPBA river gear auction is gear- I’d like to thank MS Orton and the powers to be for ing up again. Coming to a computer in your home, reconsidering the size of the private boater delegation to these starting April 15, 2003 and ending April 30, 2003. talks. Originally each stakeholder group was given four seats. We’ll be featuring another of Dick Dechant’s fine self- Upon reappraisal it seemed private boaters were being over- bailing Hyside rafts. His newest raft, a nine foot boat whelmed by other stakeholders, some of whom have much less named the Mini-Me. Dick and his company, Hyside, interest in these questions than we do. After consultation with a have provided rafts for us for our auction for the last number of the participants, it was decided to double the size of three years. We thank him and all the other folks that the private delegation. help GCPBA to raise funds that we need to carry on This simple act goes a long way toward demonstrating our activities. Ricard o This issue’s cover feature two antiquities: a matched set of matates and manos found somewhere in the Canyon by one of our members. We haven’t published the name of the photographer or the location in order to help preserve the sites. If you happen upon such sites, take pictures, leave the artifacts alone. These sites are delicate and rare. so take care. The other item is an ancient drawing of Mayan fishermen at work in their carved “kayaks”—somehow I thought you all might enjoy the drawing. do you suppose that’s a rainbow trout on the line? page four THE Waiting List River Trip Simulator Shows Opportunity ~ Earl Perry Modeling Alternatives For the t the nice instigation of Mark Grisham, the executive director of the Grand Canyon River Outfitters Association (GCROA), a group of us met to see if we could find common A ground that we could offer the National Park Service (NPS) as they revise the Colorado River Management Plan. Mark and his co-chairman Richard Martin (better known as Grand Canyon Private Boaters Association [GCPBA] president and Waiting List editor) were looking for people with insight into the way the river “works.” The group they assembled comprised profes- sional boatmen, outfitters, environmentalists, and non-commercial boaters, each of whom also wore other hats.