#22: Dories, Ho!: Floating the Colorado River Through the Grand Canyon Part 1 of 2

Dear Bob and Sue: A National Parks Podcast

Matt and Karen Smith

Society & Culture, Nature, Personal Journals, Places & Travel, Science

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🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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For years we’d ask people who’d traveled the world, “What’s the best outdoor adventure trip you’ve ever taken?” To our surprise, the same answer came up time after time: floating the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. That’s all we needed to hear. So, with a dry bag filled with a few changes of clothes and a toothbrush, we set off down the river with fourteen of our closest friends for a six-day adventure. And, of course, we had a ten-person team of experienced guides with us, along with four wooden dory boats, three support rafts, and many cans of beer stowed below deck somewhere. Some of the topics we discuss in this episode: What a dory is What the heck Dories, Ho! means Preparing for our trip down the Colorado River What it’s like living on the river for six days The thrill of running whitewater rapids in a tiny wooden boat And, would we do it again? Tune in to part two (released Dec. 10) to learn the answer Links to more information: - Check out our Substack articles here, and - Find all our other links here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think after that, you did go out and buy some adult size baby wipes for your crudal area.
0:06.0	Yeah, and when I was at the drugstore looking for them, I needed help finding them, and so
0:14.0	I just let them know.
0:16.0	They're right next to the adult type, right?
0:18.0	These are for my wife, and I pointed at you.
0:22.0	That's right.
0:30.0	This is The Dear Bob and Zoo Podcast, our stories of adventures and missed adventures
0:41.0	as we traveled to all the U.S. National Parks and other public lands.
0:45.0	I'm Karen Smith.
0:46.0	And I'm Matt Smith.
0:48.0	We're the authors of The Dear Bob and Zoo series of books.
0:51.0	In today's part one of two episodes, we're talking about our first story boat trip on the Colorado
0:56.0	River through the Grand Canyon in 2016.
0:59.0	That's right.
1:00.0	We spent two years planning and getting ready for this trip, and it was totally worth the weight.
1:06.0	With 14 of our friends and some very skilled boatmen, we took off on an epic trip down the river,
1:12.0	and for six days, we floated through the canyon, we hiked to wondrous places,
1:17.0	and we camped under the stars on sandy beaches.
1:21.0	From keeping our beer cold to navigating the gruever to mastering the art of high-sighting,
1:26.0	we walk you through the details of life on the river during our first Dory's Ho.
1:30.0	And if the words Dory's Ho sound familiar, it might be because we wrote a book about this trip
1:36.0	that's titled Dory's Ho.
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