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[Thomas Robey]

RRFW Riverwire – Two Grand Canyon River Lotteries Started Today

October 4, 2007

Grand Canyon National Park officials announced today the start of two 
lotteries for non-commercial river trips on the Colorado River in Grand 
Canyon National Park.

Both lotteries started today, October 4, 2007, and run through noon, 
Wednesday October 10.

One lottery is for November and December trips in 2007. The dates in 
this lottery are November 30^th , December 8th, 16th, 18th, 25th, and 
the 26^th .

The second lottery is for trips in 2008. The dates for the 2008 season 
are January 1st, 7th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 21st, 24th, 25th, 
and 26^th , February 3rd and 7th, March 5th, August 10th, October 14th, 
November 6th and 8th and December 8th and 22nd.

Anyone interested in one of these launches must either create or have 
already created a user profile, and then login at https://npspermits.us 
<https://npspermits.us/>. Once logged in, click on "Create Application" 
under the lottery for which they wish to apply.

Unfortunately, at the time of this Riverwire, the web page at 
https://npspermits.us <https://npspermits.us/> cited by the National 
Park Service still displays information for the August 22 Lottery. Users 
must scroll down to the bottom of the page and either log in or create a 
new profile to log in.

The last lottery conducted by Grand Canyon National Park was conducted 
in August, and had 132 applicants for 9 permits. For information on the 
last lottery, see:

http://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/upload/2007_Follow-up_Lottery_aug07.pdf.

Individuals are eligible to apply in one or both lotteries as long as 
they are at least 18 years old and not already members of other 
noncommercial or commercial trips launching in the same calendar year as 
the desired launch date.

No person may be listed on more than 1 application within any year's 
lottery. The lottery drawings will take place on October 10th.

River runners who have not set up a profile with the Park, or do not 
have internet connections have no way of knowing of an impending 
lottery, so tell your river running friends.

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.

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