PRO: The Grand Canyon Rafting Painless Private

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THE PAINLESS PRIVATE^™

The Painless Private^™ integrates all our services to make your trip... well, painless. We prepare the boats and gear for your trip, buy and pack your food fresh in Flagstaff, and handle your shuttle arrangements. At the end of your trip, we meet you at your take-out location with a fresh lunch and cold drinks. Everyone helps load the truck, and we drive to your destination. There you can unload your personal gear and head for home, leaving the dirty work of clean-up to PRO. That's a Painless!

The Painless service is available for a fee of $500 to any trip renting at least one boat, and getting a PRO foodpack and shuttle. pbeachcook.jpg - 6.7 K

Aside from these minimum requirements, you get to choose what you need for your expedition. We provide an itemized list so that you can evaluate what's worth doing on your own. If you prefer to bring some of your own gear (lifejackets for example) your rental costs will be reduced accordingly. Your food cost is based on your specific menu selelctions, so you control how much or how little you spend on food. We also provide dependable, cost efficient shuttles based on the unique needs of your group. Here is a sample estimate.

As soon as you book a Painless, we email a Painless Primer that will prepare your group for big adventure. The Permittee Packet is our special offering for Trip Leaders. It gives important phone numbers and helpful hints help you organize your expedition. Our experienced office staff is available to answer questions and offer expert advice before your trip. A PRO advisor will help you rig the boats at the launch site and make sure you have everything you need before you head downstream.
boatcolor1.jpg - 18.7 K Add it all up and you'll discover the Painless Private^™ is the easiest, most cost effective way to get your group on and off the water. Our customers often tell us they wouldn't do it any other way.

GEAR
Your trip will be completely outfitted with what you want. You pay for only the equipment you need. Choose the number, type and size of your boats from our PRO rigs. If you opt for the Painless, we throw these extras in at 100% discount:

Use of our electric blowers & extension cord at the put-in
Extra straps (bring yours too, ours are all black)
1 foot brace per 18' boat (boatmen under 5'6" need them)
20mm first garbage box
1 drag bag per boat (for cooling beer and soda)
2 carabiners per boat
1 personal 50 cal ammo can per person
1 Inflatable kayak with paddle
Rain fly and under-kitchen tarps
Backboard table (for dish washing setup)
100' Security line (for tying off boats at night)
Propane lantern with extension stand
Water cooler
Fresh lunch at the takeout
Extra hand wash system (one for the kitchen and one for the groover)
Dibs on the Icee Kool coolers for your trip (not for rent outside the Painless)

FOOD
Select a time-tested sample menu or custom pick your meals from our delicious and diverse offerings. We have everything from vegetarian curries to sumptuous steaks, from Dutch oven cookery to durable snacks. Our ingredients are top quality and our complete cookbook instructions allow even the novice cook to prepare meals. When we pack food for your Painless, you can purchase either block ice or PRO ice (solid ice frozen directly into our coolers and yours).

SHUTTLES
We provide round-trip shuttles for your group and gear. Our vans and four-ton trucks with lift gates make for a smooth, comfortable launch and take-out. PRO drivers are safe, courteous, and capable.

PRO ADVISOR
One of the PRO staff helps you rig your boats, assists with the ranger's checkout procedure, orients the group to the food pack, toilet and other systems. One PRO driver stays at the put-in with a vehicle for as long as you need to make sure you get off to a great start!

PERMITTEE PACKET
This valuable notebook is written and updated annually by the PRO staff here in Flagstaff. It is intended for the leaders of the trip: the trip leader and head boatman. It contains packing lists, tips about managing money, hard to get phone numbers, equipment lists including the contents of first aid and repair kits, instructions for the satellite phone, tips on flow fluctuations for boatmen, information on the Norwalk virus, a section to help you fill out your permit application, information about the menu options, sample itineraries and an Indian Country map.

PAINLESS PRIMER
We provide our Painless Primer by e-mail to you, so that you can distribute it to all the members of your group. This pdf file is filled with information that is especially helpful to the rookie, such as flow charts for understanding put-in and takeout procedures, a personal packing list, charts of average temperatures, sunrise and sunset times in Grand Canyon, the scoop on using and setting up the porta-pot, and much more.

Email us - info@proriver.com - let us know what you need!