River Expeditions
Westwater - Overnighter (WA1)
The Details
Day 1 – Lunch & Dinner
Upon meeting at 7:00 a.m. at the Tag-A-Long office, you'll board vehicles for the ride to the river "put in" for Westwater Canyon rafting. At the river's edge, your guide will give you a brief safety orientation, fit you with a life jacket and then, you're off! Today we begin passing low grounds, making way to a fault-line in Wild Horse Canyon. Miner's Cabin, a historic gold mining camp, is the first stop. This stretch of the river is also good for birding, as you scan the shore for blue heron and eagles. After lunch, we plunge into fast-moving waters. Below red rock canyon walls, black Vishnu Schist erupts from the very belly of the earth, squeezing the river into an even faster current that will explode into rapids tomorrow. After a day of getting thoroughly in tune with the river, we'll make camp near the Little Dolores River. While you relax this evening, your professional guide prepares a scrumptious meal. Listen to the call of the wild while you camp under the stars.
Day 2 – Breakfast & Lunch
Breakfast is served on the banks of the Colorado River before we break camp. The guides have readied the boats for the rough and tumble ride through the rapids you'll encounter today. Before you hit Marble Canyon Rapid, your guide will have told you stories of Outlaw Cave and all the folklore surrounding it. The next succession of rapids flaunts names like Big Hummer, Funnel Falls, Surprise, Skull and Sock It To Me! You'll feel the punch of every one of them in the small raft. After all that action, you'll be happy to leisurely row out of this stunning canyon while enjoying more birding, more history, and more geology with your naturalist guide as narrator.
Note: Rapids may be run on different days than those listed depending on water flow and camp availability.