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Im a climber. This is the 3rd episode I've seen with Brent. I really like his videos. He's very likable, and explains thing very succinctly. I will probably never canyon myself, but I do enjoy his professionalism, and I just really like these videos. Ryan, you do well choosing who should be in your videos. Brent is probably the best as of yet.

Dang I really love the expansion to other sports, never knew I’d be so interested in canyoneering

Wait, you're just gonna casually open a draw with a cat just chilling in it, then just shut it again and not say anything! xD

Cool, another video on canyoning! Next step is to get you to fly to Europe to do some nice and wet slot canyons in the alps! I was taught to always use a cutaway sling between your attachment point and your rappel device. We do this so that if someone gets stuck, it is easier to save them as you don't have to destroy their whole harness, you just cut the small sling. This becomes extra valuable once you realise that many canyoning harnesses have a metal attachment ring (which would be pretty hard to cut with a knife). Carrying a knife with you is also very important, especially in wet canyons. Try to get something like a bearclaw, not one of those folding ones (they can be hard to open quickly if you need them). Cool video as always, keep up the good work!

A video on first descents and how do you go about setting up a new route would be super good enough for me!!!

HowNot2CanyonRescue!

23:14 Yep show us that for sure Also +1 to showing dry canyoning technique. I'm in an area where there are wayyyy more dry canyons (or at least ones with very little water flow). I love the wet canyoning content but I'd also like to see stuff that is more applicable to my region.

LMAO at the wonder of a boot dryer. As a PNW resident these are a requirement for winter activities!

Loved this! Tons of great info, I wish this had existed when I started canyoning myself. One thing I learned is to always have a spool of webbing in my gear and perhaps a length of pull cord to extend that rappel a little bit. I buy the black webbing from REI since black leaves a smaller footprint in the canyons. These two things have saved my bacon more than once. Looking forward to seeing more of these!

Keen to see Rich Carlson hang with you lads. Also interested in PNW rigging vs Euro vs NZ. Keep up the epic content team!

Great video! I have watched it a few times, each time I learn something new that went over my head the time before. As I get in to canyoneering I find that I need something new after each trip 😂.

It would be really cool for Brent to maybe give a heads up on things we should know about if we were planning on going on a guided trip with him, what are some things we should know before hand? What should we expect, video he would want someone to watch prior to going canyoning for the first time. Kind of like all the extra tidbits you told Ryan off camera for his first time, more of “don’t do this because you’ll drown” type stuff and Ryan can chime in with things he wish he knew before hand. Are there grades or canyons that we can go by our self with no direct experience and just using climbing /rigging skills?, at what point is a beginner canyon not safe for a climber without a guide. Also you guys mentioned a dynamic lanyard in the last video and Ryan did a pretty awesome test in Yosemite with anchors failing on the wall and the video ended with him directly on the anchor with a dyneema sling and you didn’t generate any deadly force. I forgot the KN but it’s worth referencing, dineema sling would have more force than a static rope I would think. Also i think the things that are the “must bring on a canyoning adventure” is a awesome idea! Gear videos are always awesome videos.

Hell yea top ten canyon items. More on canyoning wet/dry looks like fun 😉 also maybe where to canyon on northern east coast would be great too😉

I would love to see Rich Carlson in your next Canyoneering video. The guy has it's own documentary. You cant miss.

yes please show us the 10 canyon essentials

Go into the gear on the guiding harness!!

"..it gives me a great ab look in the canyon, ah, which is really important.." XD I love that you guys have teemed up for this. Such a great fit! [ Ange, Rick, Medhi. - Long time climbers. Short time canyoners.]

Thanks for the canyoning vids guys. You’ve got me back into it with these first couple of vids and had one of my kids out repelling a waterfall last weekend. Anchor techniques would be great to see as well as rescue scenarios. Tip for the smelly neoprene…buy a cheap ozone generator from Fleabay or scamazon. Ozone oxidizes bacteria, viruses etc which means that things stop smelling bad. I’ve got a rechargeable one when staying in my van. I even stuff it down my T-shirt if my armpits are smelling a bit!

I've been canyoneering a handful of times (dry and wet) and definitely wish I saw this first. The next generation of new canyoneerers will be so delightfully spoiled. Their trip lead can just send them this video along with the rest of the playlist and people have the first few lessons figured out, know what equipment they'll need in time to know if they should buy some, all that good stuff. We had neoprene socks in regular tennis shoes. It worked fine, but was a little cold. We just used good old climbing harnesses and we definitely held ourselves back a bit because we didn't want to shred them or get snagged when sliding. We could have skipped a few canyons with one of those diaper options. They were just canyons around Moab and Zions in Utah.

I love this new style of your vids where you take us into different sports with someone who is an expert at his extreme sport! MORE MORE MORE!!

Last comment, shout-out to WA State and local manufacturers!

Absolutely LOVE this series!

I’m just getting back into canyoneering so I’m loving these videos.

@21:33, I think I laughed way too hard... As someone who has never even considered canyoning, I think this is super interesting! Even just to compare and contrast gear from climbing/caving.

love seeing different gear and concepts from other sports.

This video is very helpful, cost me a lot of money. Thank you.!!!

You guys should come to Monterrey, México. You could do world class canyoneering and world class rock climbing and some pretty cool highlining and all kinds of stuff.

I'm surprised he didn't mention Imlay Canyon Gear, great canyoneering gear shop with lots of knowledge about the sport. I think they're based in the southwest and make a lot of their own gear.

Great to see canyoning on the channel! Hope to see more of that since its my passion and I am doing it a lot (just made my guide course). I would love to see releasable Systems and your techniques for very aquatic canyons.

Love my 2/3 prucell prusik for my p.a.

More Brent, please!

Great overall video.. I've been teaching a lot of new aquatic canyoners here in the Taiwan community for years. I've thought about making gear tutorial videos like this, weighing pros and cons of different gear and approach methodologies (especially as we also have a similar sport called river tracing which shares environment and some gear, but can be radically different). But instead of typing until my fingers break or my throat dries out.. I'll just post them this video on general gear. You could definitely do some more gear listing videos, bag packing techniques, approach process or specific techniques. But I feel no need for descender stuff like some other comments suggest, there's a hundred of those videos around already.

Please do one on how much friction the different decenders generate in their different setups and how convenient they are in practice please. I always used a simple figure 8, bought the pirana 2 before the summer. Tuns out the extra friction fin is not that convenient (for me at least) and the lock-off one is actually a deathtrap.

Great content. Love the details. I definitely look forward to more videos from you on this. There is so much.

Opening my mind to new opportunities. I never knew the resources that I could be using to have fun on the extreme rivers near my home. 💭 -How to know which river is good or bad? -Do I build the route myself? - Do you drill directional bolts? From an ice climber mind I would put the anchors above the waterfalls for rigging purposes... -What are some of the ethics involved in adding anchors near waterfalls or rivers in your community? Super fun video 📹 thank you for producing it for us all 🎬 🎥 🏊📺 *show how the gear works * show more tips and tricks * break this stuff in slow Mo

Can you talk about rope? Canyoneering rope better than climbing static rope? Is it static? Dynamic? Just everything about the rope. Thanks

Ropes - In the overview vid Brent looked to have a WIDE assortment of ropes including hard-to-source ones from Europe (CE4Y) - be great to hear is thoughts on all the varieties and lengths etc.

thanx for the info

Some rigging for canyoneering would be cool to see, as explained by Brent.

Yes on the what goes on the keg video !!

Great videos! Keep em coming!

Yes, to canyon ten essentials!

Hadn’t heard of the Watershed bags. Cool tech.

Great video.

Video on different types of descenders and which is best for what

I want to see the dynamic vs static lanyard drop tower video!

This is so cool... yeah, you should get a south west Canyoneer to do a video with you

it would be cool to show how we build natural anchors and other anchoring systems that are not permanent such as sand traps and water traps. And pothole scapes.

Canyon logistics would be cool

@Brent Roth idk what you're talking about with issues on rappel devices and D-Link biners........... O.o? That's not a safety concern...? Yet you're making it come across like it's sketchy? And only a D link holds the croll both low enough and oriented correctly... that's why Petzl invented those items to be used in conjunction.... Idk if you've vertical caved before (in proper gear) since the PNW doesn't have much of it, but you definitely don't direct attached your descender to your D. Lastly, caving harnesses sit extremely low on the hips-- it's an immensely important feature. Only a few systems can use a harness like what you showed that has a high attachment point (ie/ the ropewalking family and a Texas systems that doesn't plan to convert to frogging midway)

Great video. Thank you.

Here’s a comment. Love the content, although I don’t see myself canyoning, it was a hoot the one time I did go.

Love the cross discipline videos! Definitely would like to see how all those metal spiders work =P

Would you like to do a "how not to work safety" in height working?

can you pls make a video about the gear you need to guide a canyoning tour? I think this would be very interresting. But very nice Video

I think a video testing and explaining all thous repell devices would be cool

Kickass stuff, thanks. What size or model is that Watershed bag? I want that size, thanks

Access Gear are actually from New Zealand guys ;-) We have been canyoning for a long long time, and make great gear too! But now we stay home on lockdown and watch KZfaq like How NOT 2 instead.

Hi!!! How are you?? I am from Mexico and I really like your channel. I really want to know the brand of the last dry bag, the one that you let your melted snickers in… 😂 please.

Show how to use the rappel devices please

Hi Brent! My wife does a lot of river work snorkeling to count fish etc. so lots of late night walking in knee deep water. Do you think those boots would be better than the Patagonia wading boots she uses now?

Love it

What is the name of the food container, and where can you purchase one?

Brent, I see some rigging plates on your gear wall. Do you use those in a canyon?

This is cool! 🙂

Seeing some parallels with this and caving. Would cheap rubber boots (Wellingtons) with holes drilled in the instep and neoprene socks be a budget alternative to expensive canyon shoes?

can you please list all the descenders on the wall

Not bad talent there

I would like to know what you put in the keg pot, thanks

great video! it's nice to know thinks about oyher sports

What are those enormous devices in the middle frame at the top of the rack in the begging g

I’d be interested in seeing what forces are potentially added to the system by the falling water in waterfall rappels. MMO vs supermunter tie off for releasable contingency’s - do they differ in releasability under load or is it just personal preference which you use. Techniques for rappelling with minimal forces would be cool to.

do you recommend Chaco sandals for canyoning?

Does climbing mountains in the Southeast AK rainforest count as canyoneering?

Hi, could we get some rapel tehnicks and canoying knots? That would be awsome!

I have a question. How to abseil when it has no anchor? P.s. great Video

17:33 the ring is not positioned on the re enforced attachment point on the harness, is this an issue?

On Brent's green lanyard, What's the adjustable bit that's on there?

Where did you get the seam sealed neoprene socks?

I'm new to the sport and I have my eye on a Mammut harness. Would it last long though, sliding around in canyons?

Can you share the link for buy canyon gear with thanks

what was that metal removable ring on the harness?

I got boot dryers for my snowboard boots

What is your flotation vest called?

Still waiting for the crayon testing video

How about one showing the gear used to do sketchy marginal anchoring...or high stemming.

Skateboard break test off the drop tower?

Don't mind me, just dropping a comment for the algorithm.

The "minimal" harness has no equipment to get back up rope in an emergency.

I would NEVER want my anchor rope to be dynamic - it would stretch and you'd bounce around all over the place. You want to anchor to static rope that won't stretch and allows you to get a footing.

I am curious as to the choice of belay devices in canyoneering. Why are some better than others?

Would a snorkel help when you are stuck upside down in a waterfall?

What socks are those?

Canyonzone is from the Netherlands not from New zealand

we need new options for wet canyon shoes shoes. adidas canyon and hydrolace are no longer available

Next up: "How many cats fit in a 35 liter haul bag?" and "Which cat floats best in a canyon"

I believe hypothermia is an integral part of canyoning

Rescue knife?

Sooo are we all just pretending we didn't see the cat just chilled in that other items bin?