For Whitewater Guides, The Thrill Is Never Gone

Here’s a link to an NPR piece on Grand Canyon whitewater river guides:  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94108011&sc=emaf

Many O.A.R.S. guides have been with the company since the late 1960s-early 1970s.  Others were born into the business.  This quote, from longtime O.A.R.S. guide, Michael P. Ghiglieri, sums it up… “As O.A.R.S. guides we are the luckiest people on Earth. We not only get to “live” in some of the most beautiful places on this planet, even better, we get to expose and interpret the secrets of these fantastic rivers to O.A.R.S.’ clients. It’s better than being a pinch-hit delivery boy for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. A great byproduct of all this is being able to awaken people to the urgent need to take part in defending these vanishing or threatened river canyons. Only by working together can we protect them for the future.”