Digital Canyoneering

Resources to get you in that canyon kind of mood

 

 

In this video Rich shows a variety of ways to tie and rig webbing on single-point anchors to address issues that include position, redundancy, strength, efficiency and equalization. Rich also demonstrates three different ways to set up courtesy rigging for rappels.

What better way to get familiar with the new breaking machine than to destroy some rope! For this test we took a 3' single strand of new C.S.T. canyoneering rope and tied it with a double fisherman's knot. Looped though the eye bolts, the rope was then pulled to destruction.

Taking advantage of some recent weather here in AZ a group of us headed to the Mazatzal Range and had a good run through Shake Tree Canyon. Opted for the bypass on R5, because a previous rap nearly froze my skull.

Hard lock off method for the SQWUREL.

 

Curious to learn how webbing breaks when rigged directly from a standard hangar vs through a quick link. We used a new fixe ss hangar, some fresh tech tape 1" webbing, along with 5/16" and 1/4" quick links to use for testing.

Filmed a quick and dirty "How-To" on rigging the Hoodoo-SL using some of the most common features I typically see and/or use personally. Filming was spur of ...

With hardware store quick-links prevalent in canyons and such a variety of opinions about them I set up a test to shed some light on their strengths and weak...

Filmed a quick and dirty "How-To" on rigging the Hoodoo-SL using some of the most common features I typically see and/or use personally. Filming was spur of ...