Sunday, May 24, 2009

Canyoning in Interlaken, Switzerland

CANYONING: Traveling in canyons using a variety of techniques that may include walking, scrambling, climbing, jumping, abseiling, and/or swimming. Frequently involves jumping down water falls, sliding down natural rock slide formations, and cliff jumping.

I took a trip with Alpin Raft, an outdoor adventure sports company here in Interlaken, to go canyoning for about seven hours-- five hours actually in the water. The water was 50 degree F glacier water, fresh from the melting glacier. One of the most amazing adventures of my life!

The trip guide, Rich

Brian, a travel buddy and I





I jumped down that. And that was one of the smaller jumps.










The 45 ft jump. One of the biggest ones of the day







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