[Awclist] [Fwd: RRFW Riverwire - Yet Another Grand Canyon Lottery Started]

[Thomas Robey]

RRFW Riverwire – Yet Another Grand Canyon Lottery Started

June 17, 2007

Only days after finishing a 2007 Follow-up Lottery that had over 250 
applications for ten self guided river permits launching later this 
year, Grand Canyon National Park has started a Follow Up Lottery for 
2008. Of the 31 self-guided permits offered for the calendar year 2008, 
twenty five are in the winter months of January and February and also 
December.

This lottery began Friday, June 15, 2008, and will only take 
applications for five days, closing at noon on June 20th.

The trips offered include two launch dates which are for half size 
groups (1 to 8

people) on July 5, 2008 and August 6, 2008. The remaining 29 trips are 
for standard size groups (1 to 16 people) and include January 6th, 9th, 
11th, 13th, 16th, 17th, 19th, 20th, 24th, 25th, 26th, 30^th , February 
4th, 12th, 20th, 21^st , March 2008: 11th, 12th, 27^th , October 23^rd , 
and December 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 24th, 26th, 27th, 30th, 31^st . All 
of these launch dates are in 2008.

Interested individuals must have set up a profile with Grand Canyon 
National Park to be able to apply for the lottery.

River Runners for Wilderness (www.rrfw.org <http://www.rrfw.org/>) 
continues to offer free lottery assistance through email and a phone 
hotline for the complicated 25 page sign-up and lottery application 
process.

The RRFW telephone assistance Help-line is available at (928) 856-9065, 
throughout this lottery on a first-come first-serve basis.

Lottery applicants can refer to the RRFW online lottery tutorial, 
available for download as an Adobe PDF file of 9.5MB by clicking on the 
“Lottery Primer” link at: _http://www.rrfw.org/lottery.php_.

Additionally, lottery information is available at the free Rafting Grand 
Canyon WIKI at: http://www.rrfw.org/RaftingGrandCanyon/Main_Page.

Discussion of the Grand Canyon lottery and winning strategies may be 
found at The Rafting Grand Canyon Yahoo group at 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafting_Grand_Canyon/.

River Runner for Wilderness offers these services at no charge supported 
entirely through your generous donations at: http://www.rrfw.org/store.php.

The Grand Canyon River Permits Office also offers help at 1-800-959-9164 
or by email at grca_riv at nps.gov.

The NPS has made little effort to inform the river running community 
about these lotteries. Individuals who have set up a profile on the NPS 
web site are e-mailed directly by the NPS shortly before the beginning 
of each lottery. Grand Canyon National Park does not issue lottery press 
releases or otherwise notify the broader river running community. Since 
river runners who have not set up a profile have no way of knowing of an 
impending lottery, River Runners for Wilderness encourages all 
interested boaters to set up a profile in order to be on the Park’s 
email list.

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RIVERWIRE is a free service to the community of river lovers from River 
Runners for Wilderness. To join, send an e-mail address to 
riverwire at rrfw.org <mailto:riverwire at rrfw.org> and we'll add it to the 
RRFW RIVERWIRE e-mail alerts list.

Join RRFW’s listserver to stay abreast of and participate in the latest 
river issues. It’s as easy as sending a blank e-mail to 
_Rafting_Grand_Canyon-subscribe at yahoogroups.com 
<mailto:Rafting_Grand_Canyon-subscribe at yahoogroups.com>_.

Check out RRFW’s Rafting Grand Canyon Wiki for free information on DIY 
Grand Canyon rafting info http://www.rrfw.org/RaftingGrandCanyon/Main_Page.

Check out new items and donate at the RRFW Store 
<http://www.rrfw.org/store.php>! RRFW is a non-profit project of Living 
Rivers.

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