Santa Elena Canyon
by Donna Grimes

The latter part of February, five of us joined Louis Aulbach to paddle through the Santa Elena Canyon, a section of the Rio Grande near Big Big National Park.

Terry Burgess, John Rich, Natalie Weist, Dana Enos, Donna Grimes, Louis Aulbach

Of course, with Louis, there is always more than just paddling. We all hiked as well

But of course, to me the best part was the beautiful canyon walls

Most famous is the area called "The Rock Slide" where, if the water is high would be a great challenge.

Can you image trying to negotiate these tight turns if the water were up to 2,000 cfs! Of course, that's not what it was when we did it. I think it was around 200 cfs