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Moab guide “Big Linda” rowed Cataract Canyon at record flow. Now she’ll be honored

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In 1984, Linda “Big Linda” Wittkopf rowed the Colorado River through Cataract Canyon as its estimated daily flow reached nearly 115,000 cubic feet per second — about nine times the canyon’s highest daily flow so far this year. Linda “Big Linda” Wittkopf rows through the Grand Canyon in the 1980s.

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