Ep. 182: Canyoneering with Tom Jones
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2016
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
After over 20 years as a technical rock climber, Tom Jones discovered the desert and the joys of canyoneering! Listen in as Tom gives us an excellent introduction to this fascinating sport and recounts some great stories about canyoneering. What is it like to rap down into a deep sandstone slot and to walk and climb where few have ever gone before? Magical lighting, oases in the desert, the wind singing through the rocks.... Sound like the adventure for you? This is the show for you.
Tom's new book!
www.canyoneeringusa.com/books/zion-canyoneering-guidebook/
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| 0:26.8 | Episode 182, Tom Jones, all about canyeneering. |
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| 0:59.1 | and outdoor enthusiasts to high-level athletes, This is your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 1:21.2 | Today is all about canyering, which is a wonderful sport that's done in the western U.S., primarily, I think, around Utah and Arizona. |
| 1:31.3 | And it's a sport that I think the people that have done it love it. |
| 1:35.6 | The people that haven't done it want to know a lot more about it. |
| 1:38.0 | So today, Tom Jones has agreed to come on and give us the intro to canyaneering talk. |
| 1:44.6 | Tom has been canyaneering for 15 years. |
| 1:47.7 | He has a company that manufactures and sells canyering gear called inlay Canyon Gear. |
| 1:54.1 | And you can see all of his gear on the website, canyaneering USA.com. |
| 1:59.4 | He lives near Zion National Park, and he's here today to give us an education. |
| 2:04.7 | So Tom, welcome to the program. |
| 2:06.3 | Thank you. |
| 2:07.6 | So Tom, tell us what is canyaneering, I guess. |
| 2:11.0 | The first question is, how is that defined? |
| 2:13.1 | And then the second question is, how did you get started doing it? |
| 2:15.8 | Okay. |
| 2:16.9 | So canyneering is the sports slash application slash fascination of going down canyons that we find here, mostly in the desert, |
| 2:33.2 | and doing whatever you need to do to get through the |
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