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A slice of cake on a slice of beach In a slice of Paradise Smoothwater kayaking on the Colorado River between the Glen Canyon Dam and Lee’s Ferry 24 <strong>Gateway</strong> to Canyon Country
Story and photos by Steven Law The river is coke bottle green. The mid-morning sunlight falls gently on whiskey-colored cliff walls. The Cicadas are making their rasping noises from the tamarisk trees which line shores, a sound like a card dealer repeatedly fanning his thumb over the edges of a deck of cards. Up on the rim the temperature on this August morning is already in the mid-90s, but down in the bottom of Glen Canyon, which only recently emerged from the canyon’s wall shadow, the temperature is ten degrees cooler. We arrange our small amounts of gear in our kayaks – water bottles, lunches, and cameras in drybags – then push off the bank and into the current. The river below the Glen Canyon dam is exceptionally clear and healthy. Looking over the side of our kayaks into the water we see trout swimming beneath us and a healthy ecosystem of river weeds and other aquatic plants waving in the water. To get to this spot on the river we hired a company called Kayak the Colorado to haul our kayaks, gear and ourselves from Lee’s Ferry up the river. We choose to disembark about 10 miles upriver at a beach and campsite called Ferry Swale. There are seven of us, a group of friends from Page, Arizona. We’re also joined by an old friend of mine, and his mom, from Oakland, California. www.<strong>Gateway</strong>toCanyonCountry.com 25
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