Who wouldn't want to spend 25 days rafting through the Grand Canyon?

That is a bucket list item for so many of us.

And today we're throwing back all the way to 2016 when we talked to Heather Kelly about her experience rafting down the Grand Canyon.

I hope you enjoy. I'm going to keep it short and sweet today and just get right into it.

And by the way, this is a throwback episode. Like I said, I was not the host.

Travis was the host at this time. So enjoy. Let's get into your background a little bit before we get into the the rafting and pack rafting stuff.

You were raised in Alaska and you still live up there to this day, right? Yep, Bird Creek is

home sweet home. Bird Creek. And where is Bird Creek? It's just south of Anchorage, about 25 miles.

So if folks were driving down the Seward Highway and they saw a gas station and a motel,

that would be it. Now I looked up Bird Creek as I was curious and I think, I mean, I was literally counting the

houses on Google Earth and I might have come up with somewhere in the neighborhood of 35.

Is that sound about right?

Yeah, that's probably pretty accurate.

My grandparents actually did some of the first homesteading in that area back in the 1950s. So we've got a beautiful

two and a half acres butted up against the Chewagatch National Forest. That's awesome. And you're

on a cove down in there. Yeah. It's awesome. So I imagine that's probably one of the reasons you got

started in kayaking and rafting. Yeah. You know, I started guiding rafts when I was 18 up here in Alaska and had a job

that was just down the road.

But it was a really unique trip because we would drive to the train station and then get

onto the train with all of our customers and then ride out to this great big glacier where the train

would drop us off in literally middle of nowhere. You can't access it by road. And then we would

float these rafts around icebergs touring the glacier and then down this glacial fed river back

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