Summer Monsoons at the Grand Canyon
We've just entered into my favorite time of the year around here
Finding Jewels in Junk – Captain John Hance
Grand Canyon’s First Official Tour Guide, Captain John Hance Some of my favorite times at the canyon, whether guiding a rim tour or on a river trip, are when learning and sharing what we call “people stories” about the adventurous men and women who have come before us to this Grand Canyon and have long since passed. We often call them “ancestors”… someone who has come and gone and left their mark. Probably my all-time favorite "ancestor" is Captain John Hance (or self-proclaimed “Captain” as we should call him).
Sharing the Wonders of God with a Local Grand Canyon Tour Company
Recently I had the amazing opportunity to give a presentation on the Biblical Creation perspective we teach each day here at the Grand Canyon, the same sort of teaching you’ll hear on any of our rim tours or river trips. The only difference was this was not to our guests on bus or raft, but to a gathering of guides from a different Grand Canyon tour company who also operate rim tours here at the canyon. Throughout the years we’ve spent running tours, we occasionally run into guests and
The Heavens Declare for All to See
One of the special river trips we do each year is a unique 7-day “Geology by Day and Astronomy by Night” experience. Dr. Danny Faulkner joins us on this trip and presents an amazing opportunity to study the cosmos over the canyon. We have amazingly dark night skies here in Northern Arizona. That, combined with the dry desert air and high elevation makes for an ideal location for astronomy. Truly the “Heavens declare the glory of God” over the Grand Canyon, much as they did 2,000 years ago for
A Dream Fulfilled, Nearly Ten Thousand Miles Away
Sometimes the tours we do are a huge blessing and joy even for us as tour guides. I recently had the amazing opportunity to give a Grand Canyon sunset tour to a group I will never forget. On a recent tour we had a group of 4 - Rhoda and her husband Randy, and Rhoda’s parents Maynard and Emily. Rhoda and her family were from Malawi, Africa where her father spent years as a geography teacher. Rhoda had moved to America and recently married Randy. Her parents were now