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finally finished this of our trip to California last month. those canyons were really like nothing i've ever seen, and more water than i've ever experienced when canyoneering. the first two days were the "jump trips", it's very rare to find a canyon with so many jumps and slides (probably twice as many jumps as there were rappels). the last day was an easy peasy canyon with no jumps, in fact it was kind of boring. i don't know if i'll ever be completely satisfied with another canyon after doing the jump trips, they were absolutely beautiful, wet, unique, scary, and exhausting. jump, swim, pull yourself out of the water, boulder hop, hike, downclimb, repeat. that's how it went, i felt like i was in boot camp. but it was so much fun! you knew when it was a longer jump because you would jump, look up, back at the water, back up, and then back at the water all before you hit the water.
i wish i had had a GoPro more than anything for this trip.