{"id":500,"date":"2010-07-15T01:31:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T06:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=500"},"modified":"2010-07-13T19:02:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T00:02:30","slug":"grand-canyon-rafting-08-camping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2010\/07\/grand-canyon-rafting-08-camping\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Canyon Rafting – 08 Camping"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n

From June 28th through July 3rd, I had the privilege of being on a raft on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. This was part of a family trip \u201cfor the guys.\u201d On a trip put together by my father-in-law Allan, his two sons, me (a son in law), my three sons, two other grandsons, one grandson-in-law, and one great grandson spent five days and five nights on the Colorado River. These blog posts are part of the story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Five days and five nights on the Colorado River means many things – one is that we slept on the shore five nights. We went camping!<\/p>\n

I’m not sure why I threw in that exclamation point, but it seemed the right thing to do. Each evening as we were moving to the shore, Jake the trip leader would shout, “Let’s go camping!” Hence, the exclamation point.<\/p>\n

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One of Our Campgrounds<\/p><\/div>\n

I had never been camping before. My thought: camping is okay, but camping with 30 other people is maybe not so okay.<\/p>\n

Here is a photo of one of our “campgrounds.” We pulled off the river onto a sandy beach, and that was that. Everyone had a cot, a sleeping bag a sheet, a tarp, and a pad. I tried the pad one night, but it was too hot. I had to use the tarp one night, but that is a story for another post. Sleeping bag? Too hot. Sheet? Too hot at dark, but okay at 2 AM.<\/p>\n

We camped 14 hours a day. The first time I thought about it, 14 hours sounded too long, but it is correct. We left the river at about 6 every evening and returned to the river about 8 in the morning.<\/p>\n

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In between, we<\/p>\n