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In one of Outside the house magazine's "Literary All-Stars" comes the thrilling true story of the speediest boat ride ever before, down the complete length of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon, through the legendary flood of 1983. In the springtime of 1983, significant flooding along the length of the Colorado River confronted a team of designers at the Glen Canyon Dam with an unprecedented disaster which could have led to the most catastrophic dam inability in history. In the midst of this crisis, your choice to launch a small wooden dory known as the Emerald Mile at the top of the Grand Canyon, just 15 kilometers downstream from the Glen Canyon Dam, looked like not just unusual but downright suicidal. The Emerald Mile, at one time slated to be demolished, was rescued and brought back alive by Kenton Grua, the man at the oars, who designed to use this flood as a kind of hydraulic sling-shot. The goal was to toe nail the all-time record for the speediest boat ever before propelled - by oar, by motor, or by the sophistication of God himself - down the complete length of the Colorado River from Lee's Ferry to Lake Mead. Do he endure? Just barely. Now, this remarkable, epic feat unfolds here, in The Emerald Mile.
