Canyoneering Ghost Rider Canyon, Ascending/Totem Block, Virgin River Gorge, Arizona

2020 begins with a return to this small canyon in the Virgin River Gorge for a bit of a warm up/ training day. Ghost Rider is a fun little canyon and perfect for beginners, the rappels are bolted and the highest one is eighty feet. The first rappel can actually be down climbed. The approach doesn't get any easier, you literally park at the start of the canyon and the walk back up to the top isn't too bad.
We trained on rigging releasable with Totem blocks and lowering, ascending double rope with VT Prusiks tied in Schwabisch Knots, ascending single strand with Petzl Acsension ascenders...even lock offs with leg wraps. Productive half day!
Just a reminder, we are not professionals or guides and the demonstrations you see are our own personal training.
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