jman
12-04-2018, 05:14 PM
While browsing YouTube for canyoneering vids (Sunday evening is a good time for this), this popped up as a recommended video.
It was created by a channel called “Mediocre Amateur”. It looks like they are based in Utah but travel all over doing videos of ridge-climbs, mountaineering, and endurance races, etc but it came up as “Iron Wash - Battling Ice and Hypothermia”.
So they have a buddy who has a helicopter and they flew over the San Rafael Swells and saw this slot canyon they wanted to explore. So they came back later and decided to go for it, with thin, thin wetsuits.
They got to the major pothole and didn’t go into it due to lack of proper gear (and running out of daylight), which was a smart idea and ridge-escaped out of the canyon.
Just goes to show you that just because you are an experienced outdoorsman, in good shape, can hike ridges, etc. doesn’t mean that you will be a good canyoneer! Thought for the wise.
The drone footage and the vids were high quality though!
https://youtu.be/4N7E7-T60G8
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It was created by a channel called “Mediocre Amateur”. It looks like they are based in Utah but travel all over doing videos of ridge-climbs, mountaineering, and endurance races, etc but it came up as “Iron Wash - Battling Ice and Hypothermia”.
So they have a buddy who has a helicopter and they flew over the San Rafael Swells and saw this slot canyon they wanted to explore. So they came back later and decided to go for it, with thin, thin wetsuits.
They got to the major pothole and didn’t go into it due to lack of proper gear (and running out of daylight), which was a smart idea and ridge-escaped out of the canyon.
Just goes to show you that just because you are an experienced outdoorsman, in good shape, can hike ridges, etc. doesn’t mean that you will be a good canyoneer! Thought for the wise.
The drone footage and the vids were high quality though!
https://youtu.be/4N7E7-T60G8
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