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Who can canyoning and when?
  • March 11, 2020
  • Riccardo
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Who can canyoning and when?

Canyoning, like any other activity or sport, has different levels of difficulty. Assuming that easy and difficult definitions are purely subjective and that it is not possible to describe all the variety of conditions and environmental combinations that contribute to make the descent of a ravine more or less complicated, to be able to tell who can practice canyoning it is necessary to make a distinction.

On the one hand, there are people who have sufficient physical training and experience to be able to practice it independently and therefore do not need a guide. On the other hand we find the beginners or those people who practice canyoning in a very occasional way, at amateur and recreational level. For them it is necessary the presence of an expert guide, which will allow in principle anyone to practice canyoning.

Who can canyoning and when?

In this way it will be possible to go out in a discontinuous way, for the pleasure of spending once in a while a day in the woods, doing something fun and exciting, without involving a proper physical preparation and experience, if not the bare minimum. It is important to remember that this is a canyoning practice that is almost always practiced in the gorges of low or medium difficulty.

At these levels of difficulty canyoning can therefore be practiced by:
- those who cannot swim or are not afraid to enter ponds and pools more than 1.50 metres deep
- anyone who knows that he can support a trekking lasting at least four continuous hours
- anyone who do not suffer from dizziness

Who can canyoning and when?

In this regard, nature comes to meet us, offering very varied types of gorge, which can sometimes be practiced even by children of 10 years. Broadly speaking, therefore, it is possible to argue that everyone, on the basis of his or her own aptitudes, can approach canyoning and practice it without any problems. As far as age limits are concerned, the age bracket is between 10 and 65 years old.

The best season for canyoning is spring-summer, because the waters of the streams are usually low, the bad weather is less frequent and the hours of light available are greater. Obviously these are climatic and meteorological factors that can vary and make the gorges more or less practicable, playing a fundamental role. They are not excluded a priori exits in the winter period, where the temperature of the water and the air do not make the activity particularly demanding. Another factor is the water flow rate, which in the months from March to September is almost always present in the optimal quantity. This quantity can obviously vary from season to season and from year to year, attributing to the place where the gorges are found a determining value.

In some regions canyoning is also possible in winter, as the actual accessibility of a gorge also depends on the water level caused by the amount of rain and the melting of snow.


Who can canyoning and when?

Bad weather is not a danger for canyoning. It is also possible to canyoning in case of light rain, but to ensure safety during the exit, the guides carefully monitor the weather not only of the region where the canyoning is carried out but also of the areas where the water comes from the stream. While in a ravine an unexpected increase in water can become dangerous. This could, for example, be caused by a downpour several kilometres away from the ravine itself. Even after heavy rains or after an extremely sultry period at high altitude that causes a severe thaw, the water level in the canyon may be too high and cause danger.