Our second raft enters Lava Falls, and is well framed against a giant backdrop of this rapid's namesake -- Lava.

Unbeknownst to the parties on both of our rafts, Mac, the captain of our second raft, donned a special outfit just for the running of this final and crazy rapid on our river run. Before we entered the rapid, Mac turned some pants into a cape, put on some tiger-stripe tight wrestler shorts, some leggings over his sandals to simulate knee-high boot legs, with the final flair being his purple wig. After we successfully ran the rapids, Mac emerged from the raft's motor well to display his fine sense of fun fashion as a capstone to the greatest rapid on the river.

Lava Falls, Colorado River, Grand Canyon.