Canyoning...

So what is canyoning? Well, it's what I did today with my staff. We got in a car and drove an hour through probably some of the most beautiful mountains I've ever seen. After we met with a small group of 4 people. One guy was named Joe. He was to be our guide for the day. He tells us that he has our equipment ready.

Mind you, none of us have even heard of "canyoning." I googled it, and it seems that there really is not set definition of what "canyoning" entails. 

So back to the story... Joe hands us IKEA bags with our equipment. They included the following:

Harness

Full-body wet suit

water socks

mountaineering boots

Helmet

What the heck? What are we getting into here? So we drive another 30 minutes up a mountain and we suit up. Joe told us that we will be getting wet and to not be afraid. 

So what happened is that we hiked uphill for about 20 minutes and then proceeded to head down towards the canyon. The first thing Joe has us do is sliding down the rocks. Our harnesses were great because they were perfect for doing that. They had this rubber padding on the booty area. 

After sliding on the rocks we got to a slightly large drop. You definitely could not jump down it. So what we did was take rope and climb down using our grip. After a couple of those kind of drops we got to even larger drops. That was actually a little dangerous, because if you lost your grip you would fall pretty far.

Finally we get to the first of a series of waterfalls. The first was approximately 20 meters high. It was way cool. At this height we had to hook up the rope to our harnesses while Joe let us down. The scary part was getting to the edge of the waterfall and leaning back on the rope. Its like only thing keeping you from falling is this little knot tied to your harness. But the drop was fun! It's like walking on a wall, plus a whole bunch of water (from the waterfall) crashing on to your body. It was quite exhilarating. 

The last waterfall that we did was about 100 feet up or 30.5 meters. It was so crazy, and the water falling was so hard. 

So that was that... Canyoning is way fun. If you have a chance, I highly suggest it.

I got back and went to the grocery to prepare for two of my friends: Cay and Dunn. They are coming to visit tomorrow. I am so excited! I picked some flowers from the field and made a quiche (from scratch, I'll put the recipe with pictures up next week). Ok off to bed... God bless!