Ep. 519: The Joys of Canyoneering Revisited - Tom Jones
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
After over 20 years as a technical rock climber and a terrible back injury, Tom Jones accidentally discovered the strange and intriguing sport of canyoneering.
What is it like to rappel down into a deep sandstone slot and to wander where few have ever gone before? The magical lighting, otherworldly formations, and total lack of access to the outside world, canyoneering is a sport few ever experience and even fewer get to know it as well as Tom.
canyoneeringusa.com
Tom's book:Zion: Canyoneering by Tom Jones
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| 0:00.0 | the first technical canyon I did. I was a climber for 25 years and was kind of getting bored with it. |
| 0:08.6 | So I took a paragliding, and then I crashed into the hillside and broke my back. |
| 0:12.5 | I spent six months on the couch, basically. |
| 0:19.5 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast, where talk to athletes, adventurers, and business owners from around the world of adventure sports. |
| 0:27.8 | Whether you're climbing Mount Everest, starting a bike shop, or getting up off your couch to take your kids hiking for the first time, we want you to have the motivation and inspiration you need to chase that |
| 0:38.5 | next adventure. |
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| 0:53.3 | Thank you. you can check them out at camp crate.net. |
| 1:05.0 | So maybe after that movie came out with James Franco, |
| 1:10.1 | about 127 hours being stuck in a rock in a canyon, |
| 1:13.2 | maybe you've said to yourself, I'll never do canyering in my life. And if you did, that would not be unwise of you. But today, we are doing |
| 1:21.5 | an episode on canyering. This is from way back, not way back, but about three years ago. |
| 1:27.6 | And it's with Kurt. |
| 1:28.6 | Kurt is doing the interview with a guy named Tom Jones, who's a very experienced |
| 1:32.8 | canyneering guide and climber, and it just goes into the sport and what it is and why people |
| 1:39.3 | do it. |
| 1:39.6 | It's really cool. |
| 1:40.9 | And I've done a little myself. |
| 1:42.7 | It's an incredible experience. And man, it's just |
| 1:46.3 | something that is probably like scuba diving, where you're just transported into this other |
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