While Indigenous groups have lived in the region for thousands of years, the river was largely introduced to the Western world when geographer John Wesley Powell ran his famed descent in 1869, shortly before becoming the first person to document rowing the Grand Canyon.
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Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
13 Sep. 2025
Team morale improves when engineers and designers see direct user impact rather than rowing toward abstract goals.
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