Canyoning II

Course intended for experienced canyonists who want to improve their technique and learn to progress in more complex ravines with big verticals and greater flow.

Details

• Ratio: 1 teacher 4 students
• Duración: 4 journeys theoretical-practical
• Época Ideal: March-October

Contenidos

• Day 1: Theory (sketches, reports and mapping), advanced knots, advanced technical material. Practice in a ravine of rope progression manoeuvres: access to reunion point protocol, preventive installations, installation and fractionation passing, handrail installation with intermediate points and special handrails, rope climbing.
• Day 2: Aquatic ravine. Guided rappels, identifying the obstacle to avoid and installation and progression procedure. Theoretical-practical evening about fortune equipment in ravines: equipment material (manual mace “spitador”, platelets, bushes and wedges), rock bridges and spits installation.
• Day 3: Dry ravine with big rappels, aquatic ravine affluent. Rappels chained with hanged reunions. Jumping technique, slide, diving and overhangs in ravines.
• Day 4: Aquatic ravine with big verticals Depending on conditions we will choose a ravine that needs the use of rope to avoid different difficulties just as applying the different typical progression techniques in canyoning; jumps, slides, siphons and swimming. Implementation of the knowledge acquired during the previous days.

 Necessary material

• Full ravine suit
• Climbing helmet
• Ravine footwear
• Neoprene gloves (optional)
• Ravine knife
• Ravine harness with anchoring ropes
• Ravine bag and watertight drum
• Whistle
• Express band with two HMS safety carabiners
• Four HMS carabiners
• Ravine lowering device with carabiner
• Classical 8 lowering device
• 2 7mm & 1,5 mtrs lines for marching
• 1 small mechanical blocker like tibloc

* If you don’t have any of these materials we can lend them to you to do the course.