Grand Canyon Treks by Harvey Butchart






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		GRAND CANYON TREKS: 12,000 MILES THROUGH THE GRAND CANYON Harvey Butchart "[Harvey Butchart] is the undisputed king of extreme and obsessive Grand Canyon hiking." Backpacker Magazine "I set about tracking down the experts on foot travel in the Canyon...they totaled one. . . Harvey Butchart." Colin Fletcher, Author, The Man Who Walked Through Time Harvey Butchart has established his place in Grand Canyon history by walking, climbing, and floating on an air mattress, more than 12,000 miles of rugged Canyon backcountry - a distance roughly equal to hiking halfway around the world. Credited with finding more than 116 approaches to the Colorado River, and with summiting 83 of the 138 named Grand Canyon peaks, 35 of those being first ascents, Butchart has been called "the undisputed king of extreme and obsessive Grand Canyon hiking" by Backpacker Magazine (June 1997). GRAND CANYON TREKS is Butchart's original trilogy, and presented for the first time in one complete volume are Butchart's observations and trail notes of his remote wilderness adventures through winding canyons and rambling plateaus of the Grand Canyon from Lee's Ferry to Lake Mead. In addition, each route has been assigned a difficulty rating, from trail walking to technical climbing. For anyone serious about exploring the backcountry of the Grand Canyon, this book is required reading. Harvey Butchart floated the entire lengths of the San Juan, Green and most of the Colorado River on an air mattress. Rivers were never an obstacle to him. When he needed to cross a river while on his exploratory trips, he inflated his air mattress, and put in upstream from where he wanted to land. This practice is prohibited by the National Park Service. Beautiful four-color cover photography of 209 Mile Canyon in western Grand Canyon by climber Scott Baxter. Photography by Harvey Butchart, his hiking companions and historical photos from the Grand Canyon Museum. With maps. Published by Spotted Dog Press, Inc., Bishop, California ISBN 0-9647530-2-2 $16.95 retail, 288 pages, 6" x 9" softcover/gloss laminate
	Hopi Ha-Ne-Ya "Katchina Warrior" by artists Sandra Hamana and Roderick Davis, Old Oraibi Village, Third Mesa, Hopi Reservation. Visit Ms. Hamana at her studio at Old Oraibi Village, the oldest consistently occupied townsite in North America (occupied since 1100 AD). Ms. Hamana's work incorporates two traditions of Hopi art and spirtualism - katchina and intricate weaving. Each color used represents a symbolic Hopi tradition. For example, the Hopi have always been farmers, and specialize in the dry farming of corn and other crops. Hamana often uses the colors of the Hopi corn in her work. ("Ha-Ne-Ya" courtesy Spotted Dog Press collection)


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