Monday, July 31, 2006
Today, the scouts went canyoning. About 3/4 of the scouts went on a Beginner's Canyoning trip. The rest went for the Advanced Canyoning trip. I went Advanced, and I am going to assume that the Beginner's trip was similar to the Advanced trip.
There is very little time left for this posting, so I'll add pictures when I get home tomorrow, or something. I'm going to polish the whole blog then as well.
Canyoning
This thing was one of the most dangerous things I have ever done. You see, canyoning consists of four main things of abseiling (climbing rock faces while attached to a rope), jumping, sliding, and walking.
Abseiling
This was spooky, picture this: You have a harness around your waist over your two wetsuits, attached to the harness is rope with a carabiner attached to it. Your carabiner is hooked to a rope suspended 30 feet above raging water and sharp rocks. The rock face is smooth from thousands of years of flowing water and is wet. You need to lean back to keep tension on the rope, and you need to lean in to the canyon. You walk slowly sideways, and must not slip.
Time to go... I'll add the rest later.

Swiss national day!!
~Dan, now 17-years-old, woo.