Swiftwater Canyoneering Course (3-Day) - Kern River, CA

This is the only curriculum of its kind being taught in America, AND includes camping, handouts, a Certificate of Completion, AND a descent of 7 Teacups Canyon on Sunday!

To register for this class, please visit our website:
Swiftwater Canyoneering Course - Uber Adventures

You must provide your own transportation to and from the location. You can either camp with us or you can get your own camping/lodging. You must provide your own PPE including your standard canyoneering gear (harness, helmet, hardware, etc), AND a full wetsuit (4/3 preferred) and a Type 3 PFD. Uber Adventures will provide the ropes and all training equipment.

Canyons with strong current, water volume and hydraulics pose dangers that dry canyons (Class 'A') and low-flow or standing-water canyons (Class 'B') do not. This course provides skills, knowledge and experiential training FOR exactly that type of environment, IN exactly that type of environment. We've taken the relevant skills from a Swiftwater Rescue Course and combined them with the relevant skills for Canyoneering in Class 'C' canyons and have produced this hybrid Swiftwater Canyoneering Course!

This course will be challenging ... and empowering!

Prerequisites: This course cannot be your first foray into the sport of canyoneering. The skills and methods in this course are a supplement to previous training. You MUST have taken the Uber Adventures Technical Canyoneering Course (ACE-L1) or the Uber Adventures Advanced Course (ACE-L2), Canyon Leader Course (ACE-L3), or Canyon Rescue Course (ACE-L4)! The only exceptions to this requirement are 1) having taken a thorough series of other APPROVED courses, or 2) having SIGNIFICANT canyoneering experience! (exceptions must be approved by Uber Adventures ... please contact us!)

IN ADDITION to the above technical requirements, YOU MUST BE A STRONG SWIMMER! This course does not teach you how to swim.

Skills, Techniques, Topics covered include:

• Rope Management in Deep or Swiftwater
• Anchor Access and Challenges
• Belays & Rappel Methods, Air Pockets
• Specific Gear, Handling & Utility
• Tensioned Diagonals, Guided Rappels, Tyrolean Traverses
• Potholes, Deviations, Re-Belays, Lowers & Hauls
• Slides & Jumps, Surface Tension, River Crossings
• Hydrology: Holes, Rapids, Laminars, Eddies
• Defensive/Aggressive Swimming, Ferry Angles
• Strainers, Sieves, Entrapments
• Rescue: Towed Victim, Live Bait, Throw Bags/Rope
• Communication, Safety, CFS, LNT
• Hypothermia, Submersion, Water Quality

Tuition: This 3-Day Swiftwater Canyoneering Course is $595 per individual. Please read more course/company policies here.
Included with tuition is all instruction and all group Canyoneering equipment, i.e.: ropes, webbing, rope bags, rapides, rigging, etc. … and a Certificate of Completion!!

Instructors: The entire Uber team!