The Salt and Verde rivers are both up and its an excellent time to go boating. Ceiba’s 14′ self-bailers are perfect for the Salt & our NRS inflatable kayaks are ideal for the Verde. Keep Ceiba in mind for all of your rental boating needs.
Okay, the latest and greatest with the Pearce Ferry Road – the Grand Canyon National Park Service is not announcing an exact date for the road opening. Could be as early as February or as late as March, so stay tuned folks. Also, fire blankets are not going to be required, only recommended for 2010.
Pearce Ferry Ramp
Pearce Ferry Rapid
Please keep in mind that Ceiba’s off season discount extends all the way through February 15th of 2010.
We’d also like to thank all of our clients in 2009 for using Ceiba’s services. We sincerely appreciate your business and we’d love to see you again in 2010!
To everyone out there, all of us here at Ceiba would like to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous new year!
Hello from Ceiba! We wanted to make sure everyone knew we have a river permit information page now. Look for it on our home page. It is on the left side, scroll down below the icons and you’ll see it – our Grand Canyon River Permits page.
These are the river’s that our equipment rentals are available for. We recommend that you plan early so you can get your preferred launch dates. February is the month to register for the Grand Canyon lottery. Check it out, get your friends to register and don’t forget Ceiba is a huge resource for all southwest rivers.
All of us here at Ceiba would like to wish you and your families the best of the holiday season in 2009.
Ceiba Adventures, Inc
www.ceibaadventures.com
800-217-1060
Well, its official- the Pearce Ferry Road will be open and available for takeouts by January 1st, 2010! Yippee!
Ceiba is encouraging every trip to utilize this great resource. Why? Well, here are a few reasons:
* You’ll save all your Hualapai exit fees at Diamond Creek.
* You’ll get to see the lower Inner Gorge with six additional rapids.
* Unlimited side canyon hikes – we can recommend several.
* You’ll see the entire Grand Canyon.
* If you live on the west coast, you’re several hours closer to home.
Ceiba is more than willing to help your group with the lower or western canyon logistics, figure out how many extra days is practical for your trip and answer any questions you might have.
Ceiba has 3 decades of lower canyon experience. We used to take out at the old Pearce Ferry Ramp and have orchestrated dozens of film projects on the Diamond Down section- most recently, the production of Into the Wild. We’ve also hiked extensively in all the major side canyons.
We look forward to the Pearce Ferry Road opening and hope to see you in 2010!
Raftingly, the Ceiba Team!
Accident Insurance is now available through Grand Canyon Private Boaters Association. This is an awesome opportunity to get accident insurance for your river trip. You must be a GCPBA member to qualify, so sign up first.
Then check out the many benefits the group policy through GCPBA program offers. Ceiba is recommending this accident insurance policyy to all of our clients and participants. Contact them at www.GCPBA.org.
Winter is almost upon us and Ceiba would like to remind everyone going on winter river trips about our wood stove. This tight, compact Ceiba exclusive is a great addition to any winter river trip.
We originally found this stove in Copper Canyon Mexico at a small mercantile shop that we frequented during our mountain bike adventures in that amazing area. They are simply great, easy to store in a drop hatch, easy to set up and easy to clean out.
We supply a small shovel, and a folding Sven saw with the stove as well.
Why are these stoves so great? Other than the reasons above, here are just a few!
* The top of the stove allows you to heat water for coffee or tea.
* Five or six people can sit closely around it and receive the warmth that it provides.
* Creating a clothes rack on any side of the stove offers your group to dry out wet river gear.
* Placing your wet suit booties and river shoes underneath dries these items quickly and safely, without them falling into a fire.
* Learning how to stock the stove properly with the right size pieces of wood, for the ultimate “cranking power” of the stove makes it fun for the group.
* Once this is achieved you’ll understand what we mean by a “Carrot Top”.
* When this goal is met you can open up the door of the stove and let your mind be mesmerized by the “Inner Sanctum”
Do we have you convinced that the Ceiba Wood Stove is the way to go?!
With our Wholeshabang packages we include the wood stove free or charge, but otherwise they go for $2.00 a day. You can not beat that with a stick!
We look forward to hearing from you all this winter
Safe Boating from all of here at Ceiba Adventures!!
Here are some photos of our Wood Stove:
Ceiba Adventures is the premier outfitter catering to private river trips through the Grand Canyon. Our Whole Shabang package is designed to remove all the hassles of organizing a river trip but leaving the fun, excitement and adventure in tact.
Ceiba’s owners, Scott Davis and Rachel Schmidt, have over 50 years of combined experience in the Grand Canyon and they bring this expertise to every group that Ceiba works with. They take great pride in accommodating every trip’s unique and specific needs, desires, and requests. Flexibility, attention to detail and unlimited friendly customer service is what Ceiba strives for with every person and group that we work with.
Ceiba’s warehouse, office and facility are perfectly suited for meeting the needs of the private river runner. Our on-site food pack facility with solid block ice, fully stocked and well-organized shop, recycling center and long-term parking are all conveniences that add to the ease of trip planning, rigging and de-rigging. Starting and ending your trip in Flagstaff and doing all of your pre and post trip “meet and greets”, as well as, doing your clean-up at the Ceiba compound is a painless way to go.
All of Ceiba’s trucks and vans are late-model Fords that are designed with river runners in mind. Our services are utilized by the scientific organizations that work in Grand Canyon including United States Geological Survey, the National Park Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality – just to name a few of the science trips that Ceiba outfits. We have orchestrated archaeological trips with the Hopi, Zuni and Hualapai tribes, as well as, providing shuttle services and equipment rentals for the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center.
Ceiba Adventures is also the exclusive rental provider for motorboats in Grand Canyon. You can run motorboats anytime between April 1st and September 15th through the entire length of the canyon, and year round from Diamond Creek down to Lake Mead. Our motorboat fleet includes fully rigged 37’ S-rigs, 22’ motorized Snout boats and even a 16’ Achilles sport boat. We have 50, 30 and 15 HP Honda 4-stroke outboard motors that are always available for “runners” or spares. Keep in mind the 16’ sport boat is ideal for many of the lakes in the surrounding area, going upstream at Lee’s Ferry, as well as, a Diamond down if you have whitewater experience.
Ceiba’s rowboats are 18’ and 14’ NRS self-bailers, with our custom aluminum frames and are fully outfitted packages – you can’t go wrong! Inflatable kayaks by NRS and Aire round out your boat rental options at Ceiba.
Food pack services are another specialty at Ceiba Adventures. Adding little delights and customizing your menu to meet your culinary desires for your river vacation is what we do. Packing food for a big group on a long river trip is a science and Ceiba has lots of experience doing it well.
Shuttles, logistics, consulting, advice and providing everything that a trip might need, even at the last minute, is what Ceiba does best. Please feel free to contact us for more information or assistance in planning a successful river trip.
Check this out! Our bread supplier has just introduced us to these new multi-grain buns. They are delicious, only 100 calories each, no trans fats or high fructose corn syrup and best of all – they won’t get smashed in your food boxes! You won’t have to worry about keeping your burger buns from getting crushed in your side boxes anymore…you can stack these things 10 deep if you want, or put all of your other bread on top of them, dig them out on your last nights burger meal and they’re still good as new! These new Sandwich Thins ™ from Oroweat are about the third of the size as regular hamburger buns, and you can eat them instead of sandwich bread as well! Ceiba is constantly updating and upgrading our food packs in order to offer new and appropriate items for river runners. For more information about our Food Packs for Grand Canyon River Trips, please call Ceiba Adventures at 1-800-217-1060.
Comparison – our new multi-grain buns (on the right…obviously)
