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Canyoning Technical Manual
The essential canyoning technical manual for aquatic canyons covering core canyoning practices. Recreational canyoners will find this manual very useful, especially those coming from other disciplines such as climbing, caving and, kayaking. It will also be very useful for guiding and leading, in addition to the core practices, group techniques are covered.
197 pages, Spiral-bound
Published January 1, 2020
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April 4, 2022
This book is an instructional manual for class C (high water) canyoneering, known as canyoning.
Pros:
- Well organized, with topics clearly differentiated and marked by different colored blocks on the outside edges of the pages.
- Decent for intermediate canyoneers.
- Diagrams of systems were fairly clear (although skipping intermediate steps).
- Spiral binding was nice, and will lay flat when you're trying to follow along with a rigging example.
- Beautiful photos that will make you want to go canyoning in New Zealand!
Cons:
- This book is meant to be an introduction to canyoning, but it did not seem very suitable for beginners. Reasons for that include: lots of unexplained jargon (and no glossary), very brief explanations of techniques, not enough intermediate pictures of systems.
- Several typos and sentences that were missing words.
- Very little discussion of what scenarios a specific technique or system would be suitable for. This gives no guidance to the reader for choosing a tool from their toolbox in a given situation.
- Too many advertisements! Many of them were for people brand new to canyoning (which seemed to be the intended audience of the book), and some were repeated.
- Does not have a single story in it. Stories can be a really good way to illustrate problems that can arise or to show an application of a technique.
- Little to offer more advanced canyoneers who have run ropes in a number of class C canyons.
In sum, I think this is a suitable book for someone who has been canyoning a few times and has some sense already of the systems, rigging, and techniques used, or for a competent climber or caver. A brand new beginner is likely to get lost quickly, and will probably have to spend a lot of time online trying to fill in the gaps on topics the book is trying to teach.
Pros:
- Well organized, with topics clearly differentiated and marked by different colored blocks on the outside edges of the pages.
- Decent for intermediate canyoneers.
- Diagrams of systems were fairly clear (although skipping intermediate steps).
- Spiral binding was nice, and will lay flat when you're trying to follow along with a rigging example.
- Beautiful photos that will make you want to go canyoning in New Zealand!
Cons:
- This book is meant to be an introduction to canyoning, but it did not seem very suitable for beginners. Reasons for that include: lots of unexplained jargon (and no glossary), very brief explanations of techniques, not enough intermediate pictures of systems.
- Several typos and sentences that were missing words.
- Very little discussion of what scenarios a specific technique or system would be suitable for. This gives no guidance to the reader for choosing a tool from their toolbox in a given situation.
- Too many advertisements! Many of them were for people brand new to canyoning (which seemed to be the intended audience of the book), and some were repeated.
- Does not have a single story in it. Stories can be a really good way to illustrate problems that can arise or to show an application of a technique.
- Little to offer more advanced canyoneers who have run ropes in a number of class C canyons.
In sum, I think this is a suitable book for someone who has been canyoning a few times and has some sense already of the systems, rigging, and techniques used, or for a competent climber or caver. A brand new beginner is likely to get lost quickly, and will probably have to spend a lot of time online trying to fill in the gaps on topics the book is trying to teach.
February 21, 2025
I think I’m at a great stage in learning to canyon to be reading this book since I’ve been canyoning a bunch of times, had some formal teaching. I really liked the writing style of this book and felt like it had enough clarity for me to follow along. I thought the diagrams were great and will be using some of the notation techniques in my own drawings going forward.
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