CANYONING IN SOLITARY
I would like to exchange ideas and experiences on various solo, and repeats that at first glance, equipment specifications and parameter reduction risk, avoiding the usual cliches about exposure hazards but accentuating the side of the intimate contact with nature and with themselves in the ravine. In fact, the first solo in the gorge is a 'special experience, one is to come to terms with ourselves and with their fears, but once you know your limits you are deeply immersed in the environment, as embraced in , feeling more easily perceptible in free flight or scuba diving. There is magic to take a step and a constant rate of progression, in my case, very consistent, never stopping to optimize even the smallest gestures, quite slow, controlled step by step, always look forward to assess the next move, in short, that feeling that we all feel at the time of the dip or dropped on a high, only in the lonely feeling lasts long, beginning at the end of the canyon. Obviously, a ravine known and not already dropped by these feelings that are caused by the sum of the unknowns on an emotional level. The strong link with the environment, if you are not alone, is mitigated by many other factors That sometimes they hide it altogether.
Once you try these feelings is hard to let it, the important thing is knowing how to schedule the equipment and the output, which require major efforts, the progression in the gorge is easier to just ask me. The biggest problem is the weight that must be maximized, the choice of equipment is essential to minimize the risks. The biggest problem is the lone all the burden on their shoulders.
should bring as little as possible without missing anything, and consider approaches on foot, even when there may be a convenient shuttle. Thinking backwards we see how to optimize the weight for what is called the equipment group, Whereas only as my personal experience that does not hold in general, because each gorge should be studied and prepared the equipment for that purpose. The first thing that I left at home is the pocket rig, but only if, and only went down a ravine that someone had previously documented. The second thing to have strings are read, use only 8mm always double, and two shots from 55m you can do most of the gorges, if enough strings shorter even better, seem to be empty. Other things are left at home by rigging the lines and, of course, the safety rope, should serve some cord cutting the cord progression that must be 5m longer than the lowered top.
Once you try these feelings is hard to let it, the important thing is knowing how to schedule the equipment and the output, which require major efforts, the progression in the gorge is easier to just ask me. The biggest problem is the weight that must be maximized, the choice of equipment is essential to minimize the risks. The biggest problem is the lone all the burden on their shoulders.
should bring as little as possible without missing anything, and consider approaches on foot, even when there may be a convenient shuttle. Thinking backwards we see how to optimize the weight for what is called the equipment group, Whereas only as my personal experience that does not hold in general, because each gorge should be studied and prepared the equipment for that purpose. The first thing that I left at home is the pocket rig, but only if, and only went down a ravine that someone had previously documented. The second thing to have strings are read, use only 8mm always double, and two shots from 55m you can do most of the gorges, if enough strings shorter even better, seem to be empty. Other things are left at home by rigging the lines and, of course, the safety rope, should serve some cord cutting the cord progression that must be 5m longer than the lowered top.
