On November 21, 2024 the Nationwide Park Service at Grand Canyon Nationwide Park reported a big rock fall that occurred on Tuesday, November 12 simply downstream from the confluence from the Little Colorado River. Nationwide Park Service personnel had been on a river journey stopped over on river left at River Mile 66 at Espejo Creek. They seemed upstream and noticed an enormous mud cloud coming down the west-facing slope of the east rim of the canyon.Â
The rock fall and mud cloud seemed to be reverse of Carbon Creek Canyon, a preferred and infrequently use campsite on Grand Canyon river journeys. Any river runners tenting there or passing by the spot of their rafts would have been affected by particles and mud from the rock fall. No studies of incidents involving river runners or of rocks coming into the river channel have been reported.Â
The NPS launched a video of the latter parts of the occasion and it can be viewed here. Because of the NPS for reporting this geologic occasion!
