Grand Canyon Colorado River Rafting
For Alumni and Friends of the Department of Earth Sciences
April 30 – May 8, 2023
Trip Leader: Prof. Tim Patterson
Questions: Please contact tim [dot] patterson
carleton [dot] ca (Tim Patterson)
The Department of Earth Sciences often visits the Grand Canyon during student field trips to the region, where we hike down through the geological succession to the Colorado River and back out again. This is a spectacular but often grueling experience. This coming academic year to not only celebrate our ability to put on field camps again as the pandemic begins to recede, but to also celebrate the 70th anniversary of the department we are putting on a bucket list trip of a lifetime visit to the Grand Canyon. During this trip, which is limited to 29 persons, participants will descend in style through 2 billion years of the geological succession by quiet motorized rafts from mile 0 at Lees Ferry to mile 188 (303 km) at Whitmore Wash.