A video on how Brent would plan a day out in a canyon as far as maps/directions, gear to bring, and/or what resources he uses to go about this would be sweet!
Im a climber. This is the 3rd episode I've seen with Brent. I really like his videos. He's very likable, and explains thing very succinctly. I will probably never canyon myself, but I do enjoy his professionalism, and I just really like these videos. Ryan, you do well choosing who should be in your videos. Brent is probably the best as of yet.
Cool, another video on canyoning! Next step is to get you to fly to Europe to do some nice and wet slot canyons in the alps! I was taught to always use a cutaway sling between your attachment point and your rappel device. We do this so that if someone gets stuck, it is easier to save them as you don't have to destroy their whole harness, you just cut the small sling. This becomes extra valuable once you realise that many canyoning harnesses have a metal attachment ring (which would be pretty hard to cut with a knife). Carrying a knife with you is also very important, especially in wet canyons. Try to get something like a bearclaw, not one of those folding ones (they can be hard to open quickly if you need them). Cool video as always, keep up the good work!
@@gerritvanlaethem4168 I think you may have responded to the wrong comment, Gerrit! But if you ask me: I really like the Imlay Critr 2, as it can be used both left and right handed, friction is easy to change, and it's easy enough to block. However, the very large "hands and feet" do sometimes snag! I've used the Kong Oka for about 2 years, which is generally good but the attachment point is garbage. The Petzl Pirana I don't really like that much, can't really tell you exactly why, just didn't feel as good as others. The Kong Hydrobot is also not good in my opinion. The idea looks great, but the attachment point is bad, and the friction just was not right for me at all, and changing it just does not really work. It depends on what kind of descender you are looking for in the end. Do you wish to adjust friction easily on the go? Look for something with some good protrusions. Don't want the snag risk? Go for something like the Edelrid Hannibal. Also good to think about: do you go canyoning in sandstone areas? Then try to avoid simple aluminium descenders, they will not last long at all.
@@gerritvanlaethem4168 Figure of 8 is always a good one and cheap. If you do big rappels check out one of the expensive ones. Critr is indeed a nice one. Avoid the new pirana if you do canyons with flow.
@@mhendriks609 if you're bigger, using a smaller diameter rope, rapping single strand, or have a wet rope - you will not be able to control your friction sufficiently with a figure 8 descender.
@@thelateknights Other descenders make frictionmanagement easier but the fig.8 has been the go to in europe for many years and probably will be for many more.
23:14 Yep show us that for sure Also +1 to showing dry canyoning technique. I'm in an area where there are wayyyy more dry canyons (or at least ones with very little water flow). I love the wet canyoning content but I'd also like to see stuff that is more applicable to my region.
Loved this! Tons of great info, I wish this had existed when I started canyoning myself. One thing I learned is to always have a spool of webbing in my gear and perhaps a length of pull cord to extend that rappel a little bit. I buy the black webbing from REI since black leaves a smaller footprint in the canyons. These two things have saved my bacon more than once. Looking forward to seeing more of these!
It would be really cool for Brent to maybe give a heads up on things we should know about if we were planning on going on a guided trip with him, what are some things we should know before hand? What should we expect, video he would want someone to watch prior to going canyoning for the first time. Kind of like all the extra tidbits you told Ryan off camera for his first time, more of “don’t do this because you’ll drown” type stuff and Ryan can chime in with things he wish he knew before hand. Are there grades or canyons that we can go by our self with no direct experience and just using climbing /rigging skills?, at what point is a beginner canyon not safe for a climber without a guide. Also you guys mentioned a dynamic lanyard in the last video and Ryan did a pretty awesome test in Yosemite with anchors failing on the wall and the video ended with him directly on the anchor with a dyneema sling and you didn’t generate any deadly force. I forgot the KN but it’s worth referencing, dineema sling would have more force than a static rope I would think. Also i think the things that are the “must bring on a canyoning adventure” is a awesome idea! Gear videos are always awesome videos.
Does Brent do guide? You guys should set up a way to get advertisement/exposure/affiliate link for Ryan and him if he is ants to try to get clients out of these awesome videos! And also translate that into other extreme sports too down there line
Great video! I have watched it a few times, each time I learn something new that went over my head the time before. As I get in to canyoneering I find that I need something new after each trip 😂.
@21:33, I think I laughed way too hard... As someone who has never even considered canyoning, I think this is super interesting! Even just to compare and contrast gear from climbing/caving.
"..it gives me a great ab look in the canyon, ah, which is really important.." XD I love that you guys have teemed up for this. Such a great fit! [ Ange, Rick, Medhi. - Long time climbers. Short time canyoners.]
I've been canyoneering a handful of times (dry and wet) and definitely wish I saw this first. The next generation of new canyoneerers will be so delightfully spoiled. Their trip lead can just send them this video along with the rest of the playlist and people have the first few lessons figured out, know what equipment they'll need in time to know if they should buy some, all that good stuff. We had neoprene socks in regular tennis shoes. It worked fine, but was a little cold. We just used good old climbing harnesses and we definitely held ourselves back a bit because we didn't want to shred them or get snagged when sliding. We could have skipped a few canyons with one of those diaper options. They were just canyons around Moab and Zions in Utah.
Opening my mind to new opportunities. I never knew the resources that I could be using to have fun on the extreme rivers near my home. 💭 -How to know which river is good or bad? -Do I build the route myself? - Do you drill directional bolts? From an ice climber mind I would put the anchors above the waterfalls for rigging purposes... -What are some of the ethics involved in adding anchors near waterfalls or rivers in your community? Super fun video 📹 thank you for producing it for us all 🎬 🎥 🏊📺 *show how the gear works * show more tips and tricks * break this stuff in slow Mo
Thanks for the canyoning vids guys. You’ve got me back into it with these first couple of vids and had one of my kids out repelling a waterfall last weekend. Anchor techniques would be great to see as well as rescue scenarios. Tip for the smelly neoprene…buy a cheap ozone generator from Fleabay or scamazon. Ozone oxidizes bacteria, viruses etc which means that things stop smelling bad. I’ve got a rechargeable one when staying in my van. I even stuff it down my T-shirt if my armpits are smelling a bit!
I'm surprised he didn't mention Imlay Canyon Gear, great canyoneering gear shop with lots of knowledge about the sport. I think they're based in the southwest and make a lot of their own gear.
You guys should come to Monterrey, México. You could do world class canyoneering and world class rock climbing and some pretty cool highlining and all kinds of stuff.
Great to see canyoning on the channel! Hope to see more of that since its my passion and I am doing it a lot (just made my guide course). I would love to see releasable Systems and your techniques for very aquatic canyons.
Please do one on how much friction the different decenders generate in their different setups and how convenient they are in practice please. I always used a simple figure 8, bought the pirana 2 before the summer. Tuns out the extra friction fin is not that convenient (for me at least) and the lock-off one is actually a deathtrap.
Great overall video.. I've been teaching a lot of new aquatic canyoners here in the Taiwan community for years. I've thought about making gear tutorial videos like this, weighing pros and cons of different gear and approach methodologies (especially as we also have a similar sport called river tracing which shares environment and some gear, but can be radically different). But instead of typing until my fingers break or my throat dries out.. I'll just post them this video on general gear. You could definitely do some more gear listing videos, bag packing techniques, approach process or specific techniques. But I feel no need for descender stuff like some other comments suggest, there's a hundred of those videos around already.
Ropes - In the overview vid Brent looked to have a WIDE assortment of ropes including hard-to-source ones from Europe (CE4Y) - be great to hear is thoughts on all the varieties and lengths etc.
it would be cool to show how we build natural anchors and other anchoring systems that are not permanent such as sand traps and water traps. And pothole scapes.
@Brent Roth idk what you're talking about with issues on rappel devices and D-Link biners........... O.o? That's not a safety concern...? Yet you're making it come across like it's sketchy? And only a D link holds the croll both low enough and oriented correctly... that's why Petzl invented those items to be used in conjunction.... Idk if you've vertical caved before (in proper gear) since the PNW doesn't have much of it, but you definitely don't direct attached your descender to your D. Lastly, caving harnesses sit extremely low on the hips-- it's an immensely important feature. Only a few systems can use a harness like what you showed that has a high attachment point (ie/ the ropewalking family and a Texas systems that doesn't plan to convert to frogging midway)
Access Gear are actually from New Zealand guys ;-) We have been canyoning for a long long time, and make great gear too! But now we stay home on lockdown and watch RUclips like How NOT 2 instead.
Hi!!! How are you?? I am from Mexico and I really like your channel. I really want to know the brand of the last dry bag, the one that you let your melted snickers in… 😂 please.
Hi Brent! My wife does a lot of river work snorkeling to count fish etc. so lots of late night walking in knee deep water. Do you think those boots would be better than the Patagonia wading boots she uses now?
I do like the hard soles over a soft sole like a neopreen booty. I do raft guide and swiftwater rescue instructing and use these boots for that as well.
If you're going to have wet feet all day anyway, consider just getting the Honeywell SERVUS mud boots. Their traction is ridiculously good, and they're $30 from Tractor Supply. Literally my #1-go-to caving boot.
Seeing some parallels with this and caving. Would cheap rubber boots (Wellingtons) with holes drilled in the instep and neoprene socks be a budget alternative to expensive canyon shoes?
The biggest problem with gumboots is there hard to swim in. I cut a pair into lace up boots which work pretty good with neoprene socks Skellerup make a lace up gumboot which might work alright
I think the swimming is the kicker (no pun intended). :/ It's definitely a bitch to swim in wellies, and idk if drain holes would purge them well enough to make them worth the energy of slogging heavy boots. Honestly, the primary reason caving has to use them is because there simply aren't good enough lighter shoes with both killer grip *and* the durability to survive the abuse of caves. Afterall, those Honeywell SERVUS boots that me and Ryan have in our videos (...and like half of the US caving community swears by...) are *actually* industrial jobsite boots. And they last maybe a year of frequent caving.... There's the short shafted black-with-red "clown boots" from France (I think "Etché Mic Canyon" on CanyonZone), but idk if those are particularly comfortable. Nevermind that it's already putting you in the ~$100 US price range. :/ For canyons, it seems like just getting the "made for it" boots like the ADIDAS, Rockies, Danners, 5.11 Tactical, or whatever is kinda the best option? Idk
I’d be interested in seeing what forces are potentially added to the system by the falling water in waterfall rappels. MMO vs supermunter tie off for releasable contingency’s - do they differ in releasability under load or is it just personal preference which you use. Techniques for rappelling with minimal forces would be cool to.
I would NEVER want my anchor rope to be dynamic - it would stretch and you'd bounce around all over the place. You want to anchor to static rope that won't stretch and allows you to get a footing.
Mostly preference but most rappel devices now are on the new trend of adding friction "on the fly", easy lock-offs, non removable (so you dont drop it down a waterfall. Totem and others are also multipurpose, used for rigging releasable anchors, used as personal rappel device, ascenders and more.
Actually when you're upside down in a waterfall the water goes around you and creates an air pocket so it can be easier to breathe when you're upside down
Let me know what to film next with Brent. We film two more episodes tomorrow together!
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I think we need an episode about the canyon kitty:)
Guided rappel to cross water hazards
What method does he choose for waterproofing his hammer drill?
A video on how Brent would plan a day out in a canyon as far as maps/directions, gear to bring, and/or what resources he uses to go about this would be sweet!
and also stories of improvised anchors when/if the hammer drill breaks on a first descent.
Im a climber.
This is the 3rd episode I've seen with Brent. I really like his videos. He's very likable, and explains thing very succinctly. I will probably never canyon myself, but I do enjoy his professionalism, and I just really like these videos. Ryan, you do well choosing who should be in your videos. Brent is probably the best as of yet.
Thanks, Matthew!
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...some of us are camera shy, ok?
As a Tennessean who wants to get into caving, I thoroughly enjoyed your vids too, Rachel!
Wait, you're just gonna casually open a draw with a cat just chilling in it, then just shut it again and not say anything! xD
Time stamp
He did say something. He asked the cast to look after his thing. 22:10
Dang I really love the expansion to other sports, never knew I’d be so interested in canyoneering
Its an awesome sport!
HowNot2CanyonRescue!
this sounds amazing
Cool, another video on canyoning! Next step is to get you to fly to Europe to do some nice and wet slot canyons in the alps!
I was taught to always use a cutaway sling between your attachment point and your rappel device. We do this so that if someone gets stuck, it is easier to save them as you don't have to destroy their whole harness, you just cut the small sling. This becomes extra valuable once you realise that many canyoning harnesses have a metal attachment ring (which would be pretty hard to cut with a knife). Carrying a knife with you is also very important, especially in wet canyons. Try to get something like a bearclaw, not one of those folding ones (they can be hard to open quickly if you need them). Cool video as always, keep up the good work!
@brent: what's your favourite decender and why?
@@gerritvanlaethem4168 I think you may have responded to the wrong comment, Gerrit! But if you ask me: I really like the Imlay Critr 2, as it can be used both left and right handed, friction is easy to change, and it's easy enough to block. However, the very large "hands and feet" do sometimes snag! I've used the Kong Oka for about 2 years, which is generally good but the attachment point is garbage. The Petzl Pirana I don't really like that much, can't really tell you exactly why, just didn't feel as good as others. The Kong Hydrobot is also not good in my opinion. The idea looks great, but the attachment point is bad, and the friction just was not right for me at all, and changing it just does not really work. It depends on what kind of descender you are looking for in the end. Do you wish to adjust friction easily on the go? Look for something with some good protrusions. Don't want the snag risk? Go for something like the Edelrid Hannibal. Also good to think about: do you go canyoning in sandstone areas? Then try to avoid simple aluminium descenders, they will not last long at all.
@@gerritvanlaethem4168 Figure of 8 is always a good one and cheap. If you do big rappels check out one of the expensive ones. Critr is indeed a nice one. Avoid the new pirana if you do canyons with flow.
@@mhendriks609 if you're bigger, using a smaller diameter rope, rapping single strand, or have a wet rope - you will not be able to control your friction sufficiently with a figure 8 descender.
@@thelateknights Other descenders make frictionmanagement easier but the fig.8 has been the go to in europe for many years and probably will be for many more.
LMAO at the wonder of a boot dryer. As a PNW resident these are a requirement for winter activities!
Riiiight? Damn Californians and their 0% humidity don't understand the concept, "...and what is damp may never dry!"
A video on first descents and how do you go about setting up a new route would be super good enough for me!!!
23:14 Yep show us that for sure
Also +1 to showing dry canyoning technique. I'm in an area where there are wayyyy more dry canyons (or at least ones with very little water flow). I love the wet canyoning content but I'd also like to see stuff that is more applicable to my region.
Keen to see Rich Carlson hang with you lads. Also interested in PNW rigging vs Euro vs NZ. Keep up the epic content team!
I would love to see Rich Carlson in your next Canyoneering video. The guy has it's own documentary. You cant miss.
yes please show us the 10 canyon essentials
Loved this!
Tons of great info, I wish this had existed when I started canyoning myself.
One thing I learned is to always have a spool of webbing in my gear and perhaps a length of pull cord to extend that rappel a little bit. I buy the black webbing from REI since black leaves a smaller footprint in the canyons. These two things have saved my bacon more than once.
Looking forward to seeing more of these!
It would be really cool for Brent to maybe give a heads up on things we should know about if we were planning on going on a guided trip with him, what are some things we should know before hand? What should we expect, video he would want someone to watch prior to going canyoning for the first time. Kind of like all the extra tidbits you told Ryan off camera for his first time, more of “don’t do this because you’ll drown” type stuff and Ryan can chime in with things he wish he knew before hand.
Are there grades or canyons that we can go by our self with no direct experience and just using climbing /rigging skills?, at what point is a beginner canyon not safe for a climber without a guide.
Also you guys mentioned a dynamic lanyard in the last video and Ryan did a pretty awesome test in Yosemite with anchors failing on the wall and the video ended with him directly on the anchor with a dyneema sling and you didn’t generate any deadly force. I forgot the KN but it’s worth referencing, dineema sling would have more force than a static rope I would think.
Also i think the things that are the “must bring on a canyoning adventure” is a awesome idea! Gear videos are always awesome videos.
Does Brent do guide? You guys should set up a way to get advertisement/exposure/affiliate link for Ryan and him if he is ants to try to get clients out of these awesome videos! And also translate that into other extreme sports too down there line
Hell yea top ten canyon items. More on canyoning wet/dry looks like fun 😉 also maybe where to canyon on northern east coast would be great too😉
Great video! I have watched it a few times, each time I learn something new that went over my head the time before. As I get in to canyoneering I find that I need something new after each trip 😂.
@21:33, I think I laughed way too hard...
As someone who has never even considered canyoning, I think this is super interesting! Even just to compare and contrast gear from climbing/caving.
Cats are the true masters of the internet.
Go into the gear on the guiding harness!!
Last comment, shout-out to WA State and local manufacturers!
"..it gives me a great ab look in the canyon, ah, which is really important.." XD
I love that you guys have teemed up for this. Such a great fit!
[ Ange, Rick, Medhi. - Long time climbers. Short time canyoners.]
I've been canyoneering a handful of times (dry and wet) and definitely wish I saw this first. The next generation of new canyoneerers will be so delightfully spoiled. Their trip lead can just send them this video along with the rest of the playlist and people have the first few lessons figured out, know what equipment they'll need in time to know if they should buy some, all that good stuff. We had neoprene socks in regular tennis shoes. It worked fine, but was a little cold. We just used good old climbing harnesses and we definitely held ourselves back a bit because we didn't want to shred them or get snagged when sliding. We could have skipped a few canyons with one of those diaper options.
They were just canyons around Moab and Zions in Utah.
More Brent, please!
Opening my mind to new opportunities.
I never knew the resources that I could be using to have fun on the extreme rivers near my home. 💭
-How to know which river is good or bad?
-Do I build the route myself?
- Do you drill directional bolts?
From an ice climber mind I would put the anchors above the waterfalls for rigging purposes...
-What are some of the ethics involved in adding anchors near waterfalls or rivers in your community?
Super fun video 📹 thank you for producing it for us all 🎬 🎥 🏊📺
*show how the gear works
* show more tips and tricks
* break this stuff in slow Mo
Thanks for the canyoning vids guys. You’ve got me back into it with these first couple of vids and had one of my kids out repelling a waterfall last weekend.
Anchor techniques would be great to see as well as rescue scenarios.
Tip for the smelly neoprene…buy a cheap ozone generator from Fleabay or scamazon. Ozone oxidizes bacteria, viruses etc which means that things stop smelling bad. I’ve got a rechargeable one when staying in my van. I even stuff it down my T-shirt if my armpits are smelling a bit!
I love this new style of your vids where you take us into different sports with someone who is an expert at his extreme sport!
MORE MORE MORE!!
I'm surprised he didn't mention Imlay Canyon Gear, great canyoneering gear shop with lots of knowledge about the sport. I think they're based in the southwest and make a lot of their own gear.
This video is very helpful, cost me a lot of money. Thank you.!!!
I’m just getting back into canyoneering so I’m loving these videos.
You guys should come to Monterrey, México. You could do world class canyoneering and world class rock climbing and some pretty cool highlining and all kinds of stuff.
Absolutely LOVE this series!
Great to see canyoning on the channel! Hope to see more of that since its my passion and I am doing it a lot (just made my guide course).
I would love to see releasable Systems and your techniques for very aquatic canyons.
love seeing different gear and concepts from other sports.
Love my 2/3 prucell prusik for my p.a.
Please do one on how much friction the different decenders generate in their different setups and how convenient they are in practice please.
I always used a simple figure 8, bought the pirana 2 before the summer. Tuns out the extra friction fin is not that convenient (for me at least) and the lock-off one is actually a deathtrap.
Not a canyoner (yet) but I have really liked using my Sterling ATC
Great content. Love the details. I definitely look forward to more videos from you on this. There is so much.
Great overall video.. I've been teaching a lot of new aquatic canyoners here in the Taiwan community for years. I've thought about making gear tutorial videos like this, weighing pros and cons of different gear and approach methodologies (especially as we also have a similar sport called river tracing which shares environment and some gear, but can be radically different). But instead of typing until my fingers break or my throat dries out.. I'll just post them this video on general gear. You could definitely do some more gear listing videos, bag packing techniques, approach process or specific techniques. But I feel no need for descender stuff like some other comments suggest, there's a hundred of those videos around already.
Yes on the what goes on the keg video !!
This is so cool... yeah, you should get a south west Canyoneer to do a video with you
Yes, to canyon ten essentials!
Can you talk about rope? Canyoneering rope better than climbing static rope? Is it static? Dynamic? Just everything about the rope. Thanks
Canyon logistics would be cool
Some rigging for canyoneering would be cool to see, as explained by Brent.
Would you like to do a "how not to work safety" in height working?
I want to see the dynamic vs static lanyard drop tower video!
Hadn’t heard of the Watershed bags. Cool tech.
Ropes - In the overview vid Brent looked to have a WIDE assortment of ropes including hard-to-source ones from Europe (CE4Y) - be great to hear is thoughts on all the varieties and lengths etc.
Great videos! Keep em coming!
Love the cross discipline videos! Definitely would like to see how all those metal spiders work =P
Great video.
it would be cool to show how we build natural anchors and other anchoring systems that are not permanent such as sand traps and water traps. And pothole scapes.
thanx for the info
I think a video testing and explaining all thous repell devices would be cool
Video on different types of descenders and which is best for what
Here’s a comment.
Love the content, although I don’t see myself canyoning, it was a hoot the one time I did go.
@Brent Roth idk what you're talking about with issues on rappel devices and D-Link biners........... O.o?
That's not a safety concern...? Yet you're making it come across like it's sketchy?
And only a D link holds the croll both low enough and oriented correctly... that's why Petzl invented those items to be used in conjunction....
Idk if you've vertical caved before (in proper gear) since the PNW doesn't have much of it, but you definitely don't direct attached your descender to your D.
Lastly, caving harnesses sit extremely low on the hips-- it's an immensely important feature. Only a few systems can use a harness like what you showed that has a high attachment point (ie/ the ropewalking family and a Texas systems that doesn't plan to convert to frogging midway)
Access Gear are actually from New Zealand guys ;-)
We have been canyoning for a long long time, and make great gear too!
But now we stay home on lockdown and watch RUclips like How NOT 2 instead.
We love you too guys!!
Great video. Thank you.
Kickass stuff, thanks. What size or model is that Watershed bag? I want that size, thanks
can you pls make a video about the gear you need to guide a canyoning tour? I think this would be very interresting. But very nice Video
Not bad talent there
Hi!!! How are you?? I am from Mexico and I really like your channel.
I really want to know the brand of the last dry bag, the one that you let your melted snickers in… 😂 please.
Hi Brent! My wife does a lot of river work snorkeling to count fish etc. so lots of late night walking in knee deep water. Do you think those boots would be better than the Patagonia wading boots she uses now?
I do like the hard soles over a soft sole like a neopreen booty. I do raft guide and swiftwater rescue instructing and use these boots for that as well.
If you're going to have wet feet all day anyway, consider just getting the Honeywell SERVUS mud boots. Their traction is ridiculously good, and they're $30 from Tractor Supply. Literally my #1-go-to caving boot.
Brent, I see some rigging plates on your gear wall. Do you use those in a canyon?
What is the name of the food container, and where can you purchase one?
I would like to know what you put in the keg pot, thanks
great video! it's nice to know thinks about oyher sports
This is cool! 🙂
Show how to use the rappel devices please
Still waiting for the crayon testing video
I got boot dryers for my snowboard boots
Hi, could we get some rapel tehnicks and canoying knots? That would be awsome!
Seeing some parallels with this and caving. Would cheap rubber boots (Wellingtons) with holes drilled in the instep and neoprene socks be a budget alternative to expensive canyon shoes?
Depends on how grippy the boots are. Having good grip is important because sometimes the anchors are right on the edge and the rocks can be slippery.
@@PhantasticAnhimal I've been really impressed with their grip on wet rock, better than approach shoes for sure
The biggest problem with gumboots is there hard to swim in. I cut a pair into lace up boots which work pretty good with neoprene socks
Skellerup make a lace up gumboot which might work alright
I think the swimming is the kicker (no pun intended). :/ It's definitely a bitch to swim in wellies, and idk if drain holes would purge them well enough to make them worth the energy of slogging heavy boots.
Honestly, the primary reason caving has to use them is because there simply aren't good enough lighter shoes with both killer grip *and* the durability to survive the abuse of caves. Afterall, those Honeywell SERVUS boots that me and Ryan have in our videos (...and like half of the US caving community swears by...) are *actually* industrial jobsite boots. And they last maybe a year of frequent caving....
There's the short shafted black-with-red "clown boots" from France (I think "Etché Mic Canyon" on CanyonZone), but idk if those are particularly comfortable. Nevermind that it's already putting you in the ~$100 US price range. :/
For canyons, it seems like just getting the "made for it" boots like the ADIDAS, Rockies, Danners, 5.11 Tactical, or whatever is kinda the best option? Idk
@Brent Roth can come visit the Deep South and we can go play underground. :3 It'd be fun to collab.
I’d be interested in seeing what forces are potentially added to the system by the falling water in waterfall rappels.
MMO vs supermunter tie off for releasable contingency’s - do they differ in releasability under load or is it just personal preference which you use.
Techniques for rappelling with minimal forces would be cool to.
Delaney has done some interesting testing regarding the super munter tie off
I have a question. How to abseil when it has no anchor? P.s. great Video
Love it
What are those enormous devices in the middle frame at the top of the rack in the begging g
do you recommend Chaco sandals for canyoning?
can you please list all the descenders on the wall
Next up: "How many cats fit in a 35 liter haul bag?"
and
"Which cat floats best in a canyon"
Sooo are we all just pretending we didn't see the cat just chilled in that other items bin?
Don't mind me, just dropping a comment for the algorithm.
Don't mind me thanking you, its just for the algorithm :)
Does climbing mountains in the Southeast AK rainforest count as canyoneering?
17:33 the ring is not positioned on the re enforced attachment point on the harness, is this an issue?
I'm new to the sport and I have my eye on a Mammut harness. Would it last long though, sliding around in canyons?
On Brent's green lanyard, What's the adjustable bit that's on there?
The "minimal" harness has no equipment to get back up rope in an emergency.
How about one showing the gear used to do sketchy marginal anchoring...or high stemming.
Canyonzone is from the Netherlands not from New zealand
Yes thats true! Access Gear are actually from New Zealand
Can you share the link for buy canyon gear with thanks
Where did you get the seam sealed neoprene socks?
what was that metal removable ring on the harness?
I would NEVER want my anchor rope to be dynamic - it would stretch and you'd bounce around all over the place. You want to anchor to static rope that won't stretch and allows you to get a footing.
I believe hypothermia is an integral part of canyoning
we need new options for wet canyon shoes shoes. adidas canyon and hydrolace are no longer available
What is your flotation vest called?
Skateboard break test off the drop tower?
What socks are those?
I am curious as to the choice of belay devices in canyoneering. Why are some better than others?
Mostly preference but most rappel devices now are on the new trend of adding friction "on the fly", easy lock-offs, non removable (so you dont drop it down a waterfall. Totem and others are also multipurpose, used for rigging releasable anchors, used as personal rappel device, ascenders and more.
depends on your weight also. Some rappel devices work well for lighter folks and other devices work better for heavier folks.
Would a snorkel help when you are stuck upside down in a waterfall?
Actually when you're upside down in a waterfall the water goes around you and creates an air pocket so it can be easier to breathe when you're upside down
Where's Brent's Orion t-shirt from? I need one to troll my co-workers