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 Our All Paddle Trips consist of 3 paddle boats. All participants will be in one of these 16-foot or 14-foot paddle boats. Everyone in the boat provides power by paddling with canoe-style paddles while the captain (one of our guides) navigates. (Oar boats accompanying the trip carry only gear.) Our paddle boats do not carry any equipment besides your personal day gear which results in a small, light boat. These factors make our boats easier to paddle in the flat water or in winds. They're fun even in small rapids and allow us to build lots of momentum going into the really big ones.
Typically, All Paddle Trips include 7 guides and 18 trip participants, 6 on each paddle boat. Expect to bond with others participating on your 4 - 6 member paddle team. Learn new paddle boat commands including "Forward", "All-Forward, "Hard Back", and "DIG". Navigate holes, huge waves, and eddies. Paddle slap at the end of successful rapid-runs. As the sun sets, you will have carried your team mates through flat water, up-stream winds, wild rapids and into the evening's camp.
 Please note that while paddling is high energy and very exciting, we would like you to notice in our photos that the participants are sitting out on the tubes of the boat and they are paddling. This means that they cannot hold on while riding the rapids. Therefore, being knocked into the water is a definite possibility (while "swimming" off an OAR BOAT is very rare). Please also note that we have a lot of flat water in Grand Canyon as well as rapids and that paddling means providing propulsion through flat water as well as through rapids.
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