Colorado River
Summer 2004
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Lees Ferry to House Rock
House Rock to Eminence
Eminence to Below LCR
Below LCR to Above Zoroaster
Above Zoroaster to 122-Mile
122-Mile to Matkat Hotel
Matkat Hotel to Whitmore Wash
Whitmore Wash to Gneiss Canyon
Gneiss Canyon to South Cove
Panoramas
Videos
Miscellaneous
Matkat Hotel to Whitmore Wash
Friday June 4, 2004 (Day 7)
Matkat Hotel view (Leighty)
Mile 148.4 - The view W downstream from our camp at Matkat Hotel in the Muav Gorge. See SKETCH.

Havasu Canyon ahead (Leighty)
Mile 156.0 - View S toward Havasu Canyon. The home of the Havasupai Indian tribe is in Supai village, about 11 miles up Havasu Canyon. Havasupai means "people of the blue water". Havasu Canyon was named for its aquamarine creek water: "Haha" (water) and "vasu" (blue).
Havasu Creek (Leighty)
Mile 156.7 - One of several waterfalls in the lower part of lower Havasu Canyon. See VIDEO.
Ron at the mine adit (Leighty)
Mile 156.7 - Ron sits at the entrance to a mine adit that goes about 50 meters into the cliff. This prospect is located at the top of the Muav slope above Havasu Creek.
Popular pool (Leighty)
Mile 156.7 - Looking down on one of the many pools in Havasu Creek.
Havasu Creek (Leighty)
Mile 156.7 - View up Havasu Creek from the Muav slope. See PANORAMA and VIDEO.

Muav Limestone (Leighty)
Mile 156.7 - Well bedded carbonate rock forms nice climbing ledges. See VIDEO.

Muav worm tracks and burrows (Leighty)
Mile 156.7 - Like the Tapeats at Deer Creek, the Muav at Havasu also shows worm burrow trace fossils.
A shallow Cambrian ocean (Leighty)
Mile 156.7 - The Muav Limestone was originally deposited in a shallow sea during the Cambrian Period roughly half a billion years ago. North America was then located near the equator and the seas were likely warm and tropical.
Rushing water (Leighty)
Mile 156.7 - Fast-flowing water of Havasu Creek. See VIDEO.

Waterfalls (Leighty)
Mile 156.7 - Mini-falls along Havasu Creek. See PANORAMA and VIDEO.

In the stream (Leighty)
Mile 156.7 - Rushing water in Havasu Creek. See VIDEO.
Lower Havasu Creek (Leighty)
Mile 156.7 - The falls below the Havasu Creek trail crossing. See VIDEO. See VIDEO.

The lunch crew (Leighty)
Mile 159 - After spending the morning in Havasu Canyon, the usual suspects can be found preparing lunch.
Approaching Vulcan's Forge (Leighty)
Mile 177.9 - Zack's boat nears Vulcan's Forge, a small volcanic neck. Most of the volcanic rocks in this area erupted during the Quaternary Period (<1.8 Ma) of the Late Cenozoic Era (<65.5 Ma). Many of the lavas poured into the canyon, resulting in lava-dammed lakes. Basaltic lavas are high-temperature and highly fluid, which enabled them to travel significant distances before solidifying. Some lava flows traveled over 70 miles downstream.

Vulcan's Forge (Leighty)
Mile 178.0 - Zack's boat inspects the Forge. A small mafic sill is also visible on river right. Both features were feeders for overlying lava flows and cinder cones, like Vulcans Throne.
Overlook at Lava Falls Rapid (Leighty)
Mile 179.2 - The overlook where boatmen scout Lava Falls ({10}; 13'). Lava Falls Rapid is formed by debris washing into the river from Prospect Canyon to the south. We watched two Arizona River Runners boats run Lava from here. See PANORAMA. See VIDEO. See VIDEO. See VIDEO.
Lava Falls (Leighty)
Mile 179.2 - In the Grand Canyon, Lava is the biggest rapid of them all. It is also the fastest navigable water in the western hemisphere (25-35 miles per hour). See PANORAMA and VIDEO.
Hatch boat (Leighty)
Mile 179.2 - Johnny O.'s Hatch boat joins us at the bottom of Lava Falls Rapid. His was the first of the boats in our group to run Lava.

Whitewater (Leighty)
Mile 179.2 - Raging Lava.
Zack below Lava (Leighty)
Mile 179.2 - Zack's boat examines Lava close up after a smooth run. See VIDEO.
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