I've seen some vids about the Colorado River. Is floating the right word?
Saw a documentary about the reenactment of the first successful trip down the canyon in exact replicas of the boats they used. There was some floating but also terrifying boat busting torrents.
I say floating because we didn’t do any of the rowing. We did go through some pretty big rapids though, and there was plenty of bailing. The dories we had have flat bottoms and very shallow draft, so there was no portaging.
The boats:
Hance Rapid:
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