Lessons from Lava Falls
 Nate Loper - January 25, 2025 Like those river runners who have documented stories and details of Lava Falls for the past 150 years, Scripture provides us guidance through life's most challenging waters. There's a moment of pure anticipation that every Grand Canyon rafter knows—when the distant roar of Lava Falls first reaches your ears. Mile 179 on the Colorado River holds what some consider the ultimate test of courage and skill in North American whitewater rafting. Once called Vulcan, due to the black basalt rocks born from
