Trip Description: |
PAGE LAMBERT'S RIVER WRITING JOURNEY FOR
WOMEN
This Westwater Canyon river trip
is designed to connect you to nature and the earth. The first part of this
adventure places you in the midst of stark and dramatic desert landscapes.
Journey down the river, floating
through one of the most scenic canyons on earth, and re-energize your mind,
body and soul. Expand your positive experiences as adventure, nature and other
women enrich your life. What an incredible opportunity to bond and learn with
women in an atmosphere of fun, adventure, challenge and mutual trust! A great
chance to do something women don't do often enough...play in the
outdoors…no experience necessary.
June 22
Thursday evening we arrive in
Grand Junction. A writing and river orientation by Page Lambert will be held
during the no-host dinner.
June 23
Depart with Page after breakfast
for Westwater Canyon at 9:00 AM, arriving at the river by about 9:45 AM, where
the river guides and rafts will be waiting! Introductions and a second
orientation by the guides will follow. We'll be on the water by about 10:30.
The day will be a creative mix of rafting and writing as we float this
wild and free-flowing stretch of the Colorado River, past red-walled cliffs and
deeper into our own free-flowing creativity.
June
24
A more in-depth
exploration of our creative, inner landscapes evolves as we float deeper
into the canyon, which narrows as we pass through beautiful, 1.7
billion-year-old, black schist rock walls. An off-river hike will slow the
pace, allowing for journaling time while gazing down at the river from high up
the canyon walls. Then the pace will pick up again as we brave the rapids,
ending the exhilarating day with more creative facilitation under the stars.
June 25
Our final morning on the river
we'll float past more red rock cliffs as the canyon walls widen, have more
glimpses of wildlife, and gain more insights into our own creative processes as
we prepare to bid the river a temporary goodbye so that we can return to Grand
Junction, and then get ourselves back to Aspen (about a two and a half hour
drive).
Everyone will be able to arrive
back at the Festival, suntanned and invigorated from their time on the river,
in time to get cleaned up and join the official opening festivities of Aspen
Summer Words.
Price for 3-day River Writing Journey $659.00.
Includes:
- Transportation from Grand Junction to the river, and
back.
- Rafts, sleeping tents, cushy Paco pads, and sleeping bags,
- Professional (not to mention "awesome") guides, guided
hikes
- All meals on the river (with abundant fresh foods, snacks,
and Dutch-oven desserts)
- Water resistant journals and pouches for safe keeping
- Creative writing facilitation,
- Workshop handouts (for fiction, nonfiction, and
poetry)
- River readings, and more!
After the River Trip
Optional Brief Morning Sessions back in Aspen Feeding Body
and Soul: Sustenance for the Inner and Outer Landscape An Informal
Breakfast Salon with Page Lambert. In keeping with the free-flowing nature
of the river, this hour-long, informal gathering will take place over
breakfast, giving those who went on the river trip with Page a chance to
continue their journey, while providing those who weren't able to go with an
opportunity to wet their metaphorical, literary feet.
Morning conversations will be hearty, expanding on the topics
discussed on the river- symbolism and synchronicity; landscape as character;
thematic writing; connecting the personal to the universal; emotional energy as
fuel for writing; truth in memoir; the shape of story; the journey between
fiction and nonfiction; and the poetics and reciprocity of nature. Following
breakfast will be free time-allowing for more informal discussion, private time
for journaling, or exploring Aspen's own Roaring Fork River.
For more information, go to
http://www.aspenwriters.org/summer.html
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