Amazing footage! Can't wait to check it out one day. If the canyon took you 4 and a half hours, does that mean the walk out also took 4 and half hours? 😳 based off 9 hours car to car
Thanks for checking it out. And yeah exactly right, took about 4.5hrs to hike it back at a pretty chill pace with a few rests, can certainly be done a bit quicker
Great canyon, thank you for sharing. This is definitely a very advanced level canyon, too much for me 😀and definitely not suitable for claustrophobic people. Cześć!👍
Interesting to me to use the vt when water is involved. Ive always found its much more likely to jam when the rope is wet, and makes it uncomfortable trying to unjam it in flow.
Only in low flow, but it is certainly a risk assessment, dangers of getting stuck vs risk of a fall. In high flow I wont ever use it because that risk of getting stuck and having an adverse outcome is way higher. For this rap we felt the flow was low enough to use and protect ourselves against a fall
Nice adventure clip, Jake. I love it! Keep it up. How do you find the fiddlestick experience? Is it hard to retrieve after rappelling? I always freak out that I might accidentally knock it off the fiddlestick cord while rappelling down. 😃
Thanks Mark, appreciate it! Easy to retrieve as long as there is no potential for it to get snagged on the way down. We have done some tests with it and while it's weighted with someone it is extremely difficult to pull out, my friend had to put the majority of his bodyweight on it. BUT I completely get it, I'm still very cautious with my placement. However it is a great deal of fun ghosting canyons!
Great maps, lots of good details! Now my problem. I have al lot of gpx-tracks for hiking and biking. When I import such gpx-file I can find it in the favorites in the app in 'My tracks'. But when I use a track in PE I can only follow the track by following the arrow on the track. I prefer to use a route so the app should navigate and give turn by turn navigation information. So in Basecamp I converted the gpx track into a gpx route file and exported it and saved it. When I import the gpx route file in PE I still find it in the tracks folder instead of the route folder. What I am doing wrong???
Good choice. Satellite messengers are NOT equivalent to PLBs for emergency rescue. The US Dept. of Agriculture tested Spot and found it to be effective when there was an unobstructed view of the sky, but the ability to get a message out was very ahem, SPOTTY, under tree cover. In some cases under tree cover, Spot messages failed more often than they succeeded. And they only work if your subscription service is paid up. Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs) can transmit at 5 watts power (versus 1.6w max for sat messengers), allowing them to punch thru poor conditions much better than sat messengers. PLBs have enough power to transmit directly to geostationary satellites, which orbit at 22,000 miles in space. Sat messengers can't do that. In the continental US, for example, there are two geostationary NOAA satellites overhead at all times, capable of picking up PLB distress signals very quickly - usually less than 5 minutes. Sat messengers access satellites in low earth orbit, with a sat passing over every 90-100 minutes. So it's likely that your PLB distress signal will be picked up more quickly than a Spot/Garmin distress signal. Your PLB will also work globally, without any payment or subscription. The one advantage of subscription sat messengers over PLBs is the ability to send two way, non-emergency messages to family and friends. That capability might be worth paying for, in very remote places where there's no hope of sending a text on your cell. But for a real life and death emergency in unknown conditions, when time counts, anywhere on Earth, PLBs are by far the best choice.
Thanks for posting such a detailed post, I couldn’t agree more. I have since been using a Garmin InReach but ALWAYS carry my PLB, that will always be with me for anything remote. The InReach as you said, I use for none emergency check in’s
I have a mid with a mesh inner. Tons of room and up in under 2 minutes. Push in four stakes and raise the trekking pole Out of the rain quick. Don’t usually use the mesh inner-just put down a piece of plastic sheeting.
Aquí en mexico, este tipos de brújulas presentan un fallo después de comprarla aproximadamente en 3 meses se presenta una burbuja en la capsula no permitiendo el movimiento de la ajuga o impidiendo el movimiento de esta fui al servicio técnico de aquí en mexico suunto mexico la cual no se hace responsable de este fallo y te alienta que compres otra bujula de otra marca mejor. triste pero cierto no te dejes estafar por esta marca.
Muy mala brújula al medio año que la compre se formo una burbuja en el centro de la cápsula que no permitia el movimiento libre de la aguja, fui por la garantía a suunto mexico y me negaron el servicio y me dijeron que es común pero que ya No tenia arreglo aquí en México ni en EEUU y que me comprara otra.
Thanks for your films. I didn’t consider my V7 as a touring one (for that I have a Baffin, Frej 507, Zephir 155) - but you inspired me. Now I'll definitely try it.
Great video! Btw your intuition was right with that last hole you went down, you can definitely do the duck under when you drop into that pit. I understand not trusting that there is a way out though!
Not a dig, just trying to learn. At the 6 min mark, you remove your partners personal safety device and relocate it. I can't imagine this is ideal. Should you have asked him to do it himself?
Good call out, It’s obscured by the voice over but at about 5:55 I let him know of my intentions which he agrees too, But yes for sure, he could/should have done it himself, good pickup
I received one from Suunto last week. The worse compass ever. The only thing worse that the quality is the complete lack of customer service and support. If you look at the picture above and the video the Red house or shed in the interior of the compass is pointing North. The compass I received it is pointing South. Suunto didn't care enough to reply let alone replace. Buy this if you want to get lost
How is it possible even red markings worn out, and we still can see white markings on your older compass? Are the areas with white markings hollow, groove-like, or are they printed in red on the smooth plastic?
0:51 How is it possible even red markings worn out, and we still can see white markings on your older compass? Are the areas with white markings hollow, groove-like, or are they printed in red on the smooth plastic?
