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Canyoneering: A Guide to Techniques for Wet and Dry Canyons (How To Climb Series)

Canyoneering: A Guide to Techniques for Wet and Dry Canyons (How To Climb Series)
By David Black

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #769507 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-04-15
  • Format: Bargain Price
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 176 pages

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From the Back Cover

Most canyoneers enter the sport with little—if any—training or experience in the methods needed for safe, enjoyable excursions down America’s technical canyons. This book equips all levels of canyoneers with the technical skills needed to enjoy a clean canyoneering experience and to avoid dangerous mistakes.
In Canyoneering, ACA-certified canyoneering instructor David Black covers all the basics, introducing readers to the hazards and risks of the sport, the highly-specialized gear, belaying, anchors and anchor systems, and ascending and rappelling. More advanced information addresses pothole escapes, methods for navigating wet canyons, and canyon rescue—all the skills required to gain mastery of canyoneering style and technique.  Also inside:
• An explanation of technical canyon ratings
• The right way to apply climbing, caving, and whitewater skills to technical    canyoneering
• Simple, effective ways to negotiate hazardous terrain
• Twelve classic canyons in North America and their ratings
• ACA-certified instructors, guides, and guide services

About the Author

David Black is the author of Falcon's Ice Climbing Utah and has published climbing and canyoneering articles in a number of magazines. He's been climbing, canyoneering, and guiding internationally since the mid 1960's. He's an ACA-certified canyoneering guide, and is currently guiding for Maui Canyon Adventures in Kahului, Hawaii. He resides in Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii.

Customer Reviews

Canyoneering book4
Good information about technical skills. It should give anyone looking into canyoneering a glimpse at what's involved and needed.

Excellent, Intuitive, and Comprehensive Canyoneering How-to book!5
It's the next best thing to actually taking a class (or two or three) with Dave Black! Great pictures.

Not bad, not great3
Overall a nicely illustrated, high quality book, but here's the bottom line: if you already have traditional, multi-pitch rockclimbing experience, you don't need this book to get into canyoneering. If you don't, get some real experience with a qualified partner / guide before heading down a technical canyon on your own. As in any sport with the potential for major injury or death, not this book or any other will ever come close to substituting for competent hands-on instruction.

A few specifics on the book: The section on canyoneering equipment is good (although nothing that can't be found on the web). Quite a bit of the book covers hardware and techniques borrowed from rockclimbing. Many of the anchors, knots and rope techniques presented are quite advanced, more appropriate for guides and instructors. The chapter on rescue is so advanced that "staying put and waiting for help" is probably the better option 98% of the time. The chapter on navigating potholes wasn't as extensive or helpful as I had hoped (its mainly basic aid techniques and common sense). "How-to" books can be useful, and this is a good overview of canyoneering, but I think the subject is just too big to be conveyed in print.