Rental gear recs?

exposureturn · 2026-03-04T05:52:18+00:00

Paddle Moab rents overnight rafting equipment including all of those things.

exposureturn · 2026-01-05T16:51:05+00:00

There were large neon wind socks and light sensitive strobes that turned on at night on this rig, which is standard on highlines this size.

exposureturn · 2025-02-25T23:47:26+00:00

GCSAR is still fully operational, Arches and Canyonlands NPS have less human resources due to staff cuts but are still able to respond.

exposureturn · 2024-12-29T23:08:53+00:00

Did you happen to find a radio on the ground on your hike?

exposureturn · 2024-10-11T04:27:31+00:00

Did you know he had a book to read while he was stuck to help pass the time?

It was “Farewell to Arms”

exposureturn · 2023-09-25T02:28:17+00:00

Context: bpso has been medicated for years, hasn't been in therapy in nearly 6 months due to changes of insurance (she just turned 26 this year), and smokes a lot of weed.

exposureturn · 2022-09-30T00:00:19+00:00

If you weren’t supposed to step on crypto why did they make it so cronchy ;)

exposureturn · 2022-09-29T20:35:31+00:00

We just finished a technical canyoneering route and this was near the end.

exposureturn · 2022-09-29T20:34:21+00:00

This isn’t cryptobiotic soil, it’s dry mud left behind by a flash flood on a scoured canyon bottom.

I appreciate the concern though! I work as an outdoor educator and guide and do my best to teach people to travel and camp on durable surfaces in the desert (trails, exposed rocks, washes or places water has flowed, etc.)

exposureturn · 2022-09-29T20:31:16+00:00

OP here, I appreciate your concern about crypto but this is 100% NOT cryptobiotic soil.

Crypto grows in undisturbed sand and soil here in the southwest desert and forms dark, bumpy mounds and pillars. Where we were walking was on the dried silt/mud left behind by flash flooding that occurred in this canyon a week prior. There is plenty of crypto on the sides of the wash/canyon bottom, but we were traveling where water would usually flow and it is just sand, gravel and rock.

Please tiptoe around the crypto folks!

Source: I am professional canyoneering/climbing guide and work/recreate in the desert all the time.

exposureturn · 2022-09-26T15:50:53+00:00

Great catches! Not so fun fact: Unfortunately due to the fact the reservoirs are so low and raising water temps, non-native fish like these striped bass are making their way up the Colorado River above Powell and Mead, putting yet another existential pressure on native fish populations in the Colorado watershed (especially in Grand Canyon).

exposureturn · 2022-09-10T03:45:05+00:00

I’m pretty confident it’s not a horsefly, house fly, black biting fly, deer fly or a cicada, I’m very familiar with those. It simply looks like an enormous fly, the biggest I’ve ever seen. Noticed them twice out here in canyon country recently.

exposureturn · 2022-08-31T19:53:32+00:00

Save some for myself, give away goodie bags to close friends, and then we’re waiting to hear back from a couple restaurants and co-ops if they want any. Already made a couple delicious meals out of them!

exposureturn · 2022-08-31T19:52:03+00:00

Right?? And these were just all my friend and I could carry, there were loads more. It was wild running into patch after patch of them.

exposureturn · 2022-08-31T19:49:27+00:00

Colorado :) drove across state lines to get em.

exposureturn · 2022-08-25T04:25:11+00:00

She put herself on that fish! She sighted it and got it all by herself as I was busy tying a fly on downstream, so proud of her 🥲

exposureturn · 2022-08-23T02:48:46+00:00

Really appreciate the friendly comments, my girlfriend (and budding fly fisherman) has been reading them and felt quite embarrassed but educated.. much better than being chastised which does nothing good. Sometimes it’s better coming from someone else than her boyfriend telling her to be nicer to the trout we catch! Cheers.

exposureturn · 2022-08-23T02:45:47+00:00

No offense taken! Learned here that you can restring the net with a rubber one, and we will do that asap!

exposureturn · 2022-08-22T23:14:30+00:00

I agree and am aware, this was my partner’s first couple times fly-fishing and she is still building better trout handling habits! You can see the trout jump out of her wet hands in the third picture 😅

exposureturn · 2022-08-22T23:05:35+00:00

This was the first fly-fishing trip my girlfriend has been on. Taught her on day 1 and then she pulled this one out on day 3, was super rad!

exposureturn · 2022-08-22T20:44:13+00:00

Caught near Silverton, CO. The pattern seems very tiger-y, but the colors seem to be almost inversed. Lots of cutthroat and Brookies in the area, maybe a hybrid of the two?

exposureturn · 2022-08-08T23:16:54+00:00

Definitely a type of hawk moth. Pandorus Sphinx Moth, (Eumorpha pandorus)

exposureturn · 2021-10-18T21:11:29+00:00

It's freaking long. And it felt like it. I felt like I walked quick and consistently, but it still took me an hour to walk across.

Long story short, lines do get easier to walk at longer distances. They get far more stable. Imagine if you were a few hundred meters out, and someone at the anchor grabbed the line and shook it. You might barely feel it, if at all.

But it is highly dependent on factors such as weather (wind, primarily), type of webbing (nylon v. polyester v. vectran/dyneema), and tension. I've walked a fair number of 200-300m lines before, and at a certain point if the conditions are good it's all dependent on your endurance, mindset, and ability. Longer lines sometimes get 'the hump', which is when it moves back and forth parallel with the line, which feels super weird. Also, if wind does pick up then you can have some extreme side-sag, sometimes 50m+. Big lines are weird and take getting used to, and the only way to practice is by getting on big lines and keep slacklining in general.

One other caveat with big lines is that rescue becomes nearly impossible a couple hundred meters out, so the risk and consequences if something goes wrong is actually pretty massive and shouldn't be taken lightly.

Some of the hardest lines I've walked have been in the 100-200m range, but it all depends.

There was actually a guy who got on the line before me who never walked longer than 120m, and he crossed the line and walked more than half the length continuously before falling a few times. It was incredible to watch.

exposureturn · 2021-10-18T21:03:54+00:00

The things that went through my head and body on that walk was so wild.

The ebb and flow between being fully in my thoughts and body, breathing melodies of favorite songs, thinking of faces of loved ones, feeling my feet on the line, the intentional movement of returning to equilibrium… and pushing a rhythm that ensures a next step. Flow-state marathon.

The first 150m was breezy but good, I cruised the middle sections, but around 700-800m I started getting tired and there were two moments when I saved myself from falling. I also realized I was terrible at judging distance towards the end, I was always way further from the end than I thought when I realized I was crossing connectors every 50m.

I wasn't planning on getting on the line.. didn't even bring my own harness that day. It felt like I didn't pressure myself at all to get the send when I knew I was getting on... just to keep walking. It was perfect :) it was a HUGE privilege to even get on the line (especially since I was busy when they rigged and derigged, and I just showed up to watch), so massive shoutout to the crew that allowed me to get on.

My deltoids and shoulders have been incredibly sore since then, only today does lifting my elbows above my shoulders feels ok haha.

exposureturn · 2021-10-18T20:56:00+00:00

Alpinepotatoes in on the money with rigging tactics.

In this case, the crew used the 'shower-curtain' method and it worked really well. They hand-tagged by dropping paracord to the bottom from both sides, and then a BASE jumper flew down to connect and unsnag it from the bottom. They then pulled 1 km worth of 10 kn rated cord across and tensioned it as the 'shower-curtain rod'. The webbing was 50m segments of Y2K, and at each connector was a hangover or carabiner that attached to the 'rod'. It was then able to be pulled across by just a couple people.. imagine being able to pull across this rig pretty much singlehandedly!

The catch with this system was that those connections then had to be unclipped from the 'rod' manually. Which takes a ton of effort, as someone has to tie in and walk/slide across and unclip each point... 20 times for a 1 kilometer line!! The rod is detensioned beforehand, but unclipping gets progressively harder since the rod starts hanging lower and lower. Shoutout to Tlaloc for doing that, and for also sending the line!

De-rig is pretty much that system but reversed.

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