The Experience
You can probably envision it already: Exciting rides in the rapids, a few good hikes and some first rate photo opportunities. 

Camping out and chowing down on some great outdoor cooking. 
You may have read about it. But that's not what we're talking about here. 

We're talking about what really goes on down there on the river. We're talking about a feeling, a change, a connection. We're talking about...
 ...noticing on day ten that your Dad has finally taken off his watch and is sitting quietly by himself watching a lizard. 
...seeing Ed get to know, for the first time in his life, his teenage daughter Mary Ann.
...explaining to a wide-eyed eager Barbara, who never cared beans about rocks, the mechanics of a thrust fault.
...seeing Mary's beaming 84-year-old face after, with the aid of five boatmen, whe made the tough climb into Travertine Grotto.
...turning the oars over to fifteen year old Katherine only to discover she must have been a boatman in a past life.
...silently signalling the rest of the dories into an eddy to see a grazing family of bighorn sheep, the only sound the click, click, pok, bzdzik of a dozen cameras.
...joining twenty people who should know better, running around in the pouring rain to get a better view of the dozen brick red waterfalls exploding over the rim.
...floating out of Lava Falls right side up one more time, water still spilling out over the gunwales, as four people who had been nervous as hell thirty seconds ago erupt into unchecked jubilation.
...for the ninth time that late October night, though no one's spoken for nearly an hour, putting one more log on the fire. 

What we're offering, really, isn't so much a trip as an experience. To most folks, the scenery, the thrills, and the camp life are only a part of it. 

The rest of it comes from within. We've found the rule to be, without exception, that however much you want to put into these places, that's how much you'll get back. And then some.
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Backeddy River Trips    2830 W. Forest Hills Drive
Flagstaff, Arizona  86001
phone  (928) 527-0759      mobile (928) 699-4501
Jeri Ledbetter, Owner