Canyon Dave Tours

09/12/2024

Keaton with Canyon Dave tours explains the forest of Northern Arizona, to learn more with him and other amazing guides sign up for a Canyon Dave tour today!

Ponderosa pine is a dominant tree throughout northern Arizona and the surrounding areas. As they grow taller, the trees go through a self-pruning process, wh...

26/11/2024

In Part 2 Canyon Dave explains another method to understand how old rocks are using fission track dating.

26/11/2024

Leo reports a nice British couple from the southwest countryside. They saw a bighorn sheep! It was a male, with big horns. Unlike a deer, which has antlers that shed each year, the bighorn's horns are permanent.

25/11/2024

Canyon Dave explains how to measure the age of the rocks in places like the Grand Canyon.

22/11/2024

Canyon Dave tours

26/10/2024

21/05/2024

Here is a poem I wrote one evening as I crawled into my sleeping bag below the Redwall Limestone cliff in Grand Canyon. Now I am 80 years old and I don't get down there anymore.
--Dave

Night Under the Redwall

A faded spread on top
As evening bleaches the day.
There are pillows with head-hole shadows
And dark bodies beneath.
Your ruddy shoulder is ultimate red;
Like a waning moon the crack narrows.
Feel the weight of the bedding.

16/05/2022

There's more to Grand Canyon than just the view.

11/05/2022

Cactus blooming in the Inner Canyon means summer is just around the corner. Enjoy the flowers but watch out for those cactus spines!

26/04/2022

19/04/2022

Water is life.

12/04/2022

Flying saucers over Grand Canyon? Only to the imaginative. Lenticular clouds form from very high winds at the upper altitudes and usually forewarn winter and spring precipitation. Hold onto your hats, a very windy week is forecasted!

11/04/2022

Wonderful Q&A session with Wayne Ranney, well-known Grand Canyon geologist!

Recorded Live Q/A Session: Grand Canyon Geology with Wayne RanneySUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwajUkTm0S8ElyMxq8h0bpg?---Watch this Recorded L...

06/04/2022

We saw the chopper last week, it's very cool to view a helicopter in the Canyon and get an understanding of its true scale!

Last week a Chinook helicopter brought in materials and large equipment: an excavator, Connex boxes, precast manholes, and precast headworks to the Phantom Ranch area, as construction at the Phantom Ranch Wastewater Treatment Plant (PRWWTP) continues.

The Phantom Ranch WWTP has insufficient capacity and capability to treat the current user demand and meet the state quality standards, which has resulted in it operating at half capacity.

Critical short-term upgrades are being conducted to the treatment systems as well as aeration and tank installation to improve performance. Building and mechanical monitoring will also be upgraded to improve personnel safety.

Inner canyon trail users in the vicinity of Phantom Ranch may experience temporary delays of up to 15 minutes, and noise and dust from equipment and helicopters. Visitors should follow directions from National Park Service (NPS) staff and construction crew workers as needed in the work zones to maintain safety.

Details > https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/phantom-ranch-wastewater-treatment-plant-construction-begins.htm

More about Phantom Ranch > https://go.nps.gov/phantom-ranch (469)

Image description: Flying over a green river between sheer cliff walls, a Chinook helicopter is carrying a Connex box suspended in a sling load. NPS Photo/D. Brenchley March 31, 2022

04/04/2022

They must get the best views.

03/04/2022

Always cool when Grand Canyon Railway busts out the old steam engine!

01/04/2022

Happy Centennial to Phantom Ranch!