Canyoneering Course

Suz · Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 3186

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.

Hnak · Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 1766 Location: Prescott, AZ

I'd consider it, based on how my ankle is doing by then....
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desertgirl · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 3350 Location: Chandler, AZ

I'd be up for it -- but I'd have to work the vacation situation Very Happy

Can we do this over Memorial day long weekend ?
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paintninaz · Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 3515

This looks like it'd be lots of fun, unfortunately my money is budgeted elsewhere right now. How Sad

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Hnak · Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 1766 Location: Prescott, AZ

Oh! It costs money to take those courses? Doh!

I suppose I should have looked into it a bit further.... Hmmm..... Chin Scratching

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Hikngrl · Posted: 4/24/2008, 5:10 pm Post subject:

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!
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Davis2001R6 · Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy

Aw just head up and make our own course Smile

Suz · Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 3186

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.

desertgirl · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 3350 Location: Chandler, AZ

Do you have to go uphill in a canyononeering course Rolling Eyes

I like the gravity aided part of canyoneering Very Happy

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Suz · Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 3186

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!