Tom Martin

Tom Martin has been hiking in Grand Canyon from river rafting trips since 1969. He has participated in scientific rafting trips as a field technician, worked as a commercial river guide, and participated on numerous non-commercial rafting trips as a permit holder. With multiple first ascents through the Redwall Limestone and made numerous ascents of Grand Canyon named buttes on day hikes from the river. Tom co-founded the Grand Canyon Hikers and Backpackers Association, co-founded River Runners for Wilderness and served as secretary of the Grand Canyon Historical Society. Tom worked for twenty years as a physical therapist at the Grand Canyon Clinic at the South Rim and completed a segmental hike through the entire 280 mile length of Grand Canyon from Lee's Ferry to Pearce Ferry. In writing the book Big Water Little Boats, Tom built a replica of Grand Canyon's first dory the GEM. He has only flipped it on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon a "few" times... ahem... Martin also edited Otis "Dock" Marston's "From Powell To Power."