Grand Canyon Treks:
12,000 Miles Through the Grand Canyon
Harvey Butchart
Harvey Butchart, author of Grand Canyon Treks, was called the "Obi-wan Kenobi of Grand Canyon hiking" in Backpacker Magazine.
"Harvey is a legend" said a reverent George Mancuso (editor's note: Mancuso was killed in a flash flood in the Little Colorado drainage, August 2001),whose canyon obsession has been inspired over the years by his relationship with Butchart. Butchart first hiked the canyon in 1945 when he was in his early 40s. He had just moved to Flagstaff to teach math at Northern Arizona University. "It started out innocently enough," he recalls. "I thought the canyon was a nice place to hike. . ." (Backpacker Magazine)
Since then, Harvey has walked more than 12,000 miles in the Grand Canyon and is credited with finding 116 new routes from the rim to the Colorado River and 164 routes through the Redwall formation, the most dangerous part of the canyon. He has climbed 83 of the peaks in the canyon, 30 of those having been first ascents. Spotted Dog Press is proud to be the publisher of Harvey Butchart's classic, Grand Canyon Treks: 12,000 miles Through the Grand Canyon.
He loved the desert, an in particular, he loved all that had to do with Death Valley--its history, landscape and its people. Belden spent more than 50 years at the Sun-Telegram and later served on the California History Commission and Conference of Historical Societies, appointed by then California Governors Jerry Brown and Ronald Reagan. Belden also served as chair of the Death Valley Forty Niners.