{"id":437,"date":"2011-08-15T16:05:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T23:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2013-09-08T13:56:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T20:56:22","slug":"rubio-rapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"Rubio Rapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/27742694\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My preferred outdoor activities tend to involve rocks or water\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsomething to climb over or pass through. My favorite outdoor activities involve both. And that is why I enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canyoneering\">canyoneering<\/a> so much, especially technical canyoneering. For those unfamiliar with the term, canyoneering (canyoning outside the U.S.) is essentially hiking through a canyon. Frequently, these canyons are the homes of rivers and waterfalls. This may call for wading, swimming, scrambling, climbing, and\/or rappelling. Technical canyoneering tends to require specialty equipment for rappelling and climbing. Canyoneering is what <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aron_Ralston\">Aaron Ralston<\/a> was doing in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsearchlight.com\/127hours\/\">127 Hours<\/a><\/em> before his mishap.<\/p>\n<p>Although I have hiked several non-technical canyons (such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/?tag=narrows\">Zion Narrows<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/?p=359\">Surprise Canyon<\/a>) without a guide, I had not descended any technical canyons without trained leadership (such as my first time in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/?p=286\">2008<\/a>). I spent a lot of time last year acquiring proper rock climbing training and honing climbing skills. There is a lot of overlap between climbing and canyoneering skill sets. Thus, I decided this year would be a good time to attempt technical canyoneering without guidance.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Karl (of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremethings.com\/\">Extreme Things<\/a>) and I decided Rubio Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains would be a good test run. We ran the canyon twice: once in late February when water flows were big and cold, and again in late May when flows were more moderate. Above is a video compilation of those two trips.<\/p>\n<p>Next up is <a href=\"http:\/\/climb-utah.com\/Zion\/subway.htm\">Subway<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/zion\/index.htm\">Zion National Park<\/a> in a few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My preferred outdoor activities tend to involve rocks or water\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsomething to climb over or pass through. My favorite outdoor activities involve both. And that is why I enjoy canyoneering so much, especially technical canyoneering. For those unfamiliar with the term, canyoneering (canyoning outside the U.S.) is essentially hiking through a canyon. Frequently, these canyons are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[244],"tags":[68,93,175,29,28,61,69],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}