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Dear Eddy • Prez Blurb • Guide Profiles • GTS 2019 • Back of the Boat A-A-B • Sixtymile Formation • 279 Miles the journal of the Grand Canyon River Guide’s, Inc. • voulme 32 number 1 spring 2019 the journal of Grand Canyon River Guide’s, Dear Eddy • Prez Blurb • Guide Profiles • GTS 2019 • Back of the Boat A-A-B • Sixtymile Formation • 279 Miles... • Water Stop Lee Monument • Cooler Research • Ken Sleight • New T-Shirts boatman’s quarterly review Dear Eddy …is published more or less quarterly by and for GRAND CANYON RIVER GUIDES. ’VE ENJOYED THE PROFILE OF BERT JONES as well as GRAND CANYON RIVER GUIDES his obit about Steve Mahan. He had quite a cool is a nonprofit organization dedicated to Icareer. One item to expand on was the launch date in June Protecting Grand Canyon ’83 when the Park Service was scrambling to close the Setting the highest standards for the river profession river. I remember seeing OU on the ramp with us… Celebrating the unique spirit of the river community and maybe even a private…but we too were in a rush Providing the best possible river experience to get on the river. Think we didn’t even completely finish rigging, just jumped in with our passengers and General Meetings are held each Spring and Fall. Our took off. The water was moving so quickly we were Board of Directors Meetings are generally held the first well below the Paria riffle in a heartbeat before we Wednesday of each month. All innocent bystanders are could pull over and tidy things up. urged to attend. Call for details. Attached is a photo of Michael Marstellar, our lead STAFF Executive Director LYNN HAMILTON Board of Directors President STEVE “DOC” NICHOLSON Vice President MARGEAUX BESTARD Treasurer FRED THEVENIN Directors MARA DRAZINA ZEKE LAUCK JUSTIN SALAMON THEA SHERMAN DERIK SPICE LYNN WESTERFIELD GCRG’S AMWG Representative DAVE BROWN GCRG’S TWG Photo credit: JB Irving Representative BEN REEDER BQR Editors KATHERINE SPILLMAN boatman on that trip, just before we took off… MARY WILLIAMS One of my adventures I hope no one ever tops was Our editorial policy, such as it is: provide an open flipping my boat in the middle of the night while tied forum. We need articles, poetry, stories, drawings, up at the mouth of Tapeats…a tree came down in a photos, opinions, suggestions, gripes, comics, etc. flash, hit the spare oar and flipped the boat and then Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of Grand proceeded to roto-rooter whatever had been left tied Canyon River Guides, Inc. in, like my black bag, ammo cans etc. The best thing was being awakened by Sandy Heavenrich getting me Written submissions should be less than 15OO words off the boat where I was sleeping shortly before the and, if possible, be sent on a CD or emailed to GCRG. Microsoft Word files are best but we can translate most flip! programs. Include postpaid return envelope if you Keep up the good work and all you do for the want your disk or submission returned. Canyon. Deadlines for submissions are the 1ST of February, May, August and November. Thanks! Jim “JB” Irving WILDERNESS WORLD GUIDE Our office location: 515 West Birch, Flagstaff, AZ 86001 Office Hours: 10:30–5:00, Monday through Friday PHONE 928.773.1075 FAX 928.773.8523 E-MAIL [email protected] WEBSITE www.gcrg.org page 2 grand canyon river guides Prez Blurb N THE BEGINNING—darkness, nothing, then about Like a deck of cards being shuffled, our abilities to 13.7 billion years from a tiny dot—a point of invent and solve problems, machines are invented and Isingularity—rips an explosion of energy that developed faster and faster. In my lifetime the atom expands faster than the speed of light. Pure energy. “The has been split, we’ve built rockets and built machines Big Bang.” The universe is born. In the first seconds that have landed us on the moon. We’ve sent space the energy was so hot that matter could not exist. craft that have landed on Mars and are tooling around Within a minute it cooled to 1,650,000 degrees Celsius on the surface collecting data. The recent device and the Higgs boson formed—the transition particle traveled .9 billion miles to arrive there. And we have from pure energy (bosons) to mass-quarks, gluons and built the most complex machine ever—the Large other fundamental particles. After just one minute, Hadron Collider or LHC as it’s known to physicists, in the quarks stuck together with gluons to form protons CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland that has taken us back and neutrons. Then within three minutes the protons in time to the very beginning of the Universe, just after and neutrons stuck together to form atomic nuclei of the Big Bang. With that we confirmed the existence hydrogen, helium and lithium. However, it took another of the “Higgs Boson.” In essence, we humans can do 400,000 years of cooling before electrons attached to the anything we want within the constraints of the Natural nuclei to form atoms. How’s that for “special creation?” Laws that exist within this Universe. It parallels Genesis in the Old Testament, yet this is Given our abilities to invent and solve problems, written not by theologians, but by quantum physicists how hard would it be to re-build the beaches in the deriving their solutions from Einstein’s equations of Grand Canyon? Not to diminish the problem, it is General Relativity. (How did he know?) Science is the really “pup chow” (as my friend Lew Steiger likes to basis for everything; it does not lie. say) compared to the problems mankind has solved Fast forward to approximately 4,000,000 years to get to this point in history. Next time we’ll get into ago. The north-easterly flow of water in the Grand how dams are constructed and a potential solution to Canyon region has reversed and what now is called the our problem of the diminished beaches in the Grand Colorado River is flowing from east to west and the Canyon. Grand Canyon is being cut in earnest. It is turning out to be a consistent winter with At about this same time period, pre-Hominids, regular storms arriving in the West, dropping still with tails I’m told, descend from trees deciding moisture so much more than last year. Due to the to make a go of it on terra firma. Equipped with only heavy monsoonal rains in October, the brittlebush are opposable thumbs to grasp and slightly larger brains blooming in the Sonoran Desert in January, something than their closest relatives, they see opportunity. I’ve never seen before. Forming bands, they work together and become very Sadly, with the prolonged government shutdown, successful, thus the beginning of transforming the Lynn has been unable to line up some of NPS speakers earth to conform to their needs. Transitional species for the GTS or arrange a meeting with the provisional die out, replaced by more advanced with special skills Superintendent. This will all get done in time but we and slightly larger brains. Cultivation and farming is are in a holding pattern presently. May this situation discovered. Groups discard hunting and gathering and get resolved soon. Is it possible that politicians’ brains settle in one place. Perhaps the beginning of the end, have reversed the trend for enlarging human mental I’ve heard said. capacities? An interesting question. In approximately 2,800 B.C. the written word is So the best to all, and may it keep snowing in the developed in ancient Troy, Egypt, Asia, and possibly Rockies and Arizona. Yes! Mesoamerica. Ideas can be written and passed on accurately. The wheel is invented. Tools, weapons, Doc Nicholson and through experiments with the Earth’s elements, gunpowder. Now we’re cooking! The Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, are all passed thru into the Industrial Revolution and finally into the 20TH century. In 1902, The Bureau of Reclamation is established and with it the Age of Dam-Building in the West. More on that later. boatman’s quarterly review page 3 Guide Profiles Jason Tea, Age 37 who arrived this past October 30TH. WHERE WERE YOU BORN & WHERE DID YOU GROW UP? Each SCHOOL/AREA OF STUDY/ of the four kids in my family DEGREES? I studied were born in a different accounting at school and got state, I got Ohio. We moved my Masters while spending around a bit more until we the summers off working settled back where my folks on the river. I know I’m not are from in Northern Utah. the only one out there, but we’re a rare breed, the river WHO DO YOU WORK FOR guide CPA. CURRENTLY (AND IN THE PAST)? I’ve done all my guiding for WHAT MADE YOU START Western River Expeditions. GUIDING? My brother Evan has been guiding in the Canyon since 1999. He has always been a big influence HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN GUIDING? I started guiding in and took me down the Grand Canyon as a swamper Moab after my freshman year of college back in 2003 the year I graduated high school. I figured that would and transitioned ful-time to the Grand Canyon during be an amazing thing to do and I was fortunate enough the 2006 season. I now work year-round for Western to eventually get a job. in their Salt Lake office handling accounting duties and I usually get three commercial trips in a season as WHAT BROUGHT YOU HERE? My dad spent some time well as the occasional private.
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