While its better known sister stream, the Colorado River, is more famous and more widely associated with the incredible redrock scenery of the American Southwest,  the Green River is the longer of the two (at the point of confluence), and courses through hundreds of miles of amazing canyons itself.    

The photos in this series were shot during a 1991 float we did from Green River, Utah to the confluence of the Green and Colorado, one of the mightiest river unions in the hemisphere. The river travels directly through the heart of Canyonlands National Park and offers boaters a peaceful and gorgeous escape from the civilized world. The river is extremely slow on this 119 mile trip, barely managing a few riffles in the early miles, making it a great trip for experienced canoeists. We had a single raft and a kayak on this early July trip - because of the excruciatingly slow current, there's a lot of work in moving a heavy boat downstream, and we were lucky that the upstream breezes were relatively mild.

Tamarisk trees line the river shore beneath this large canyon wall. July 1991.