WSA Caanyoneering --- Updates for February 2013
| From: | Doug Van E. |
| Sent on: | Thursday, January 17, 2013, 8:28 PM |
Hello to all WSA members who are now or who aspire to become canyoneers.
You may have seen that there was to have been a 2-day canyoneering skills weekend the end of Janaury. With all the snow and cold, that has been rescheduled for the final weekend of February. Here is the link. The catch for some of you is that this event is for those who already have basic canyoneering skills. This is not an introductory weekend. In March we will have a one-day Introduction to Rappelling on a Saturday or Sunday; which is not yet scheduled.
The good news for anyone who wants to get introduced to canyoneering is that there is an event (non-WSA) coming up in Moab Feb. 8, 9 & 10 called the Bogley Winter Fest. Www.Bogley.com is a web site devoted to many outdoor ventures, mostly in Utah. Evidently, many winters the people associated with the web site put on a loose knit event to which all-comers are invited for canyoneering in the Moab area. Here is a link directly to the Bogley Moab Winter Fest. You can read the information there and decide if this is for you.
I suggest attending the Bogley event if you are new or experienced at canyoneering because:
- it will allow you to get out there with a new crowd
- it is designed to accomodate all skill and experience levels
- Moab canyons are a very beginner-friendly, and beautiful canyoneering environment
Bogley Winter Fest is posted on the WSA calendar just so WSA members can see who else from our sphere will be there. It is not our event but I highly suggest that if you want to get in some great canyoneering, you participate; in at least Saturday and Sunday, if not all 3 days.
If you will be attending, let Bogley know on their site and let other WSA members know you are going by RSVPing on our page too.
Accomodations are something that I have not thought too much about. Does anyone from WSA who is planning to go, have any sort of place a few of us can stay over there? It may be OK camping by then but it may also still be a bit snowy &/or muddy so indoors might be far better this time than out. Help???? Please!!!