00:00 Kenton Grua was a legendary Grand Canyon river guide known for his remarkable accomplishments and thrilling stories along the Colorado River.

05:18 Kenton Grua was a river guide who spent his entire adult life in the Grand Canyon along the Colorado River, and his love for river rafting began when he went on a rafting trip with his father on the Yampa River at the age of 12.

10:36 Kenton Grua became an expert on the Colorado River as it runs through the Grand Canyon by piloting a dory called the Chattahoochee for 10 years and making nearly 100 trips down the river.

15:40 Kenton Grua, also known as "The Factor," was a larger-than-life adventurer who was in love with nature, particularly the Grand Canyon and the river, and had a fondness for pot and drinking liquor while working and on the trail.

21:09 Kenton Grua hiked the entire length of the Grand Canyon, scouted the route in advance, and hid supply caches along the way to complete the hike in 36 days, becoming the first person on record to have hiked the entire length of the Grand Canyon.

26:27 Kenton Grua knew that the Colorado River had been tamed by the Glenn Canyon Dam, which changed the river from a wild and unpredictable one to a relatively mild one, but he still knew how to navigate the rapids in the Grand Canyon.

31:53 Kenton Grua set a speed record in 1980 for navigating the rapids in the Grand Canyon, but he believed he could do it even faster and waited for the right conditions, which occurred in 1983 due to an extreme El Nino event that caused significant flooding and changed the river, giving him the opportunity to take on the same Colorado River that John Wesley Powell had navigated in 1869.

37:31 Kenton Grua and his friends decided to break the 1980 speed record by taking the Emerald Mile out onto the Colorado River, despite not receiving a permit from the park service.

42:56 Kenton Grua and his friends paddled through the Grand Canyon in pitch darkness, relying on their instincts and the vibrations in their oars to navigate the river, eventually reaching crystal rapid where they encountered a park ranger.

48:01 Kenton Grua and his group continued their wildcat river run through the Grand Canyon, despite their boat being overturned, injuries, and exhaustion, and eventually reached the end of their journey.

53:04 Kenton Grua completed the wildcat river run through the Grand Canyon in a record-breaking time of 36 hours and 38 minutes, and despite concerns about losing his license, he only received a $500 fine and continued to be a legend of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River until his death in 2002.