No Kidding Canyon Video

[Kuya]

No Kidding canyon was delight! pikan and I meet up with penmartens, Mountaineer for some canyoneering fun in this unique canyon. I had won a SandTrap from the Irish Jihad drawing, and was anxious to learn out to use it. Penny was happy to help and organized this trip! It was so fun to meet everyone in person. Mark and Penny were some of the best company anyone could ask for. Thanks guys!

Enjoy the video :)


http://youtu.be/ltjy6le6Ll4

[Sandstone Addiction]

Loved the video Blake :2thumbs:

[SRG]

Nice man, looks like you all had a blast! Thanks for posting.

[peakbaggers]

Great job, Blake. Gives a nice overview of the canyon.

[Kuya]

Thanks guys! :) It was a wonderful canyon! hoping that I can meet up with the rest of you all and do a canyon someday soon! :)

[hikster11]

Sweet nice video

[Slot Machine]

Blake, another very nice video!

You standing on Luke's shoulders had me rolling man! :lol8: :2thumbs:

[Mountaineer]

Love it!

[Stray]

I loved the demonstration of rappelling with low impact, pulling a sand trap anchor and best of all muddy boots on shoulders pothole escape. :roflol:

:2thumbs:

[Kuya]

I loved the demonstration of rappelling with low impact, pulling a sand trap anchor and best of all muddy boots on shoulders pothole escape. :roflol:

:2thumbs:


Thanks! It was a great learning experience for me to do this canyon. So many good skills were taught and demonstrated. There really is SO MUCH to learn by going with PRO canyoneers like Penny and Mark

[DesertDuke]

Interesting to see the anchor retrieval. I haven't seen that before.....in person or on video. Thanks

[TommyBoy]

Great video, that canyon looks like tons of fun, its on my short list of ones I want to do. I was wondering why you used both a sandtrap and potshot anchors? Was there a specific reason for the PS over the trap at that drop, or was it just to learn both techniques?

[Kuya]

TommyBoy, Good question. If I may, my buddy Luke wrote up the TR here on Bogley for that trip. The TR can be found HERE (http://www.bogley.com/forum/showthread.php?70286-Wet-and-muddy-No-kidding!). The long answer to your question can be found there. THe short answer to your question is: There was water in the canyon that we didn't expect, and our SandTraps were rendered useless. Sooooooo.... we had to use PotShots and carefully bring the sand with us through the middle of the canyon. We had to use the PotShots for most of the drops, and we also had to take great care to not loose the sand in the PotShots. If the sand would have been lost, we would not have had any (easy) way to anchor the drops while in the heart of the canyon.