An idea...

The story of a family's adventures which will take them along the Colorado River in a series of trips each one sharing the beauty and learning of the wilderness in the Southwest.

Over the course of the next several years, we will be traveling along the river and it's tributaries looking for new places and discovering the old.  Sections will be explored rafting, biking, hiking and packed in for overland travel.

Here are the main drainages for the Colorado:

 

"Coloradorivermapnew1" by Shannon - Background and river course data from DEMIS Mapserver and The National Map, both public domain. Licensed under GFDL via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coloradorivermapnew1.jpg#/media/File:Coloradorivermapnew1.jpg