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Suz
Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 3186
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Posted: 4/23/2008, 5:58 am Post subject: Canyoneering Course |
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I'm thinking about this and wondering if any of my friends here might be interested in attempting to coordinate schedules for sometime in June?
http://www.zionadventures.com/canyoneering_courses.html
or maybe something here
http://www.canyoneering.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1932
In Europe, canyoneering or “canyoning” is an intense sport, well known as the latest "extreme game." Here, in the mecca of canyoneering, extremists have been descending Zion’s "Secret Canyons" for nearly 100 years. Just now, canyoneering is hitting the mainstream in the United States.
Canyoneering refers to travel through or occupation of a steep narrow area requiring the use of a variety of wilderness techniques. It is transforming. It reaches in and brings out the child in all of us as it combines all levels of exploration: hiking, splashing through streams, scrambling over boulders, problem solving with peers, and rappelling through waterfalls into cold pools.
Canyoneering is the fastest growing sport in Zion National Park, with hundreds of people making their way through the labyrinth of slots the Park offers. Some canyons are easy to descend and require no special skills at all; others require wilderness-level planning and training and offer immense physical and mental challenges. Whatever your state of readiness, there is a canyon in the desert awaiting you.
Zion Adventure Company is a professional canyoneering organization, invested in helping shape and grow the sport with safe, fun, and effective curricula brought to life by our comprehensive menu of trips and courses.
Consider canyoneering as an exciting part of your next visit to the Southwest.
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Hnak
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 1766 Location: Prescott, AZ
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Posted: 4/23/2008, 8:20 am Post subject: |
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I'd consider it, based on how my ankle is doing by then.... _________________ The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow. —EDWARD ABBEY |
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desertgirl
Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 3350 Location: Chandler, AZ
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Posted: 4/23/2008, 8:34 am Post subject: |
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I'd be up for it -- but I'd have to work the vacation situation Can we do this over Memorial day long weekend ? _________________ Photos: http://www.pbase.com/desertgirl/galleries
Life is but a dream ...there is no end to what you can dream! |
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paintninaz
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 3515
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Posted: 4/24/2008, 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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This looks like it'd be lots of fun, unfortunately my money is budgeted elsewhere right now. _________________ ~Tracy
“Friends make the bad times good — and the good times unforgettable.” |
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Hnak
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 1766 Location: Prescott, AZ
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Posted: 4/24/2008, 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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Oh! It costs money to take those courses? I suppose I should have looked into it a bit further.... Hmmm..... _________________ The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow. —EDWARD ABBEY |
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Hikngrl Canyoneering is my 'Happy Place'
Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 5578 Location: Peoria, AZ
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Posted: 4/24/2008, 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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I'm with Tracy. I have a daughter graduating from college, a grand daughter to be born (and spoiled) and a son getting married in Jamaica.... That's about all I can handle right now..... Maybe some day! _________________ ~~~Diane~~~
I want to shine! |
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Davis2001R6
Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy
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Posted: 4/24/2008, 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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Aw just head up and make our own course |
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Suz
Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 3186
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Posted: 4/24/2008, 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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well some are free to SAR folks.........so we just have to get all the pre-recs out of the way for that and then the class might be free. |
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desertgirl
Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 3350 Location: Chandler, AZ
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Posted: 4/24/2008, 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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Do you have to go uphill in a canyononeering course I like the gravity aided part of canyoneering _________________ Photos: http://www.pbase.com/desertgirl/galleries
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Suz
Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 3186
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Posted: 4/25/2008, 6:09 am Post subject: |
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I think you might have to do a little of that uphill stuff to get to the canyon before you go down through it....and there's a lot of gear to haul but think of the bone density we'll be building! |
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