Hot off the computer, Reunion Island Video part II.
New footage, new photos, new soundtrack.

http://imageevent.com/robertcobb

Enjoy.....
Rob

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Robert Cobb <robert_a_cobb@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hot off the computer, Reunion Island Video part II.
New footage, new photos, new soundtrack.

http://imageevent.com/robertcobb

Enjoy.....
Rob

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tres bien!

what was the anchor situation like there? I saw one in the video that
looked like a giant rap ring of sorts. Did you have to find many of your
own or use natural anchors...or were they all pretty established?

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Robert Cobb wrote:

> Hot off the computer, Reunion Island Video part II.
> New footage, new photos, new soundtrack.
>
> http://imageevent.com/robertcobb
>
> Enjoy.....
> Rob
>
>
>
>

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Glad you guys liked the video.
The anchor situation on Reunion is quite a bit different than what
we see here in the US.
The canyons there get a huge amount of water thru them.
Each drop has many,many bolts.
Both sides of the drop are usually bolted to allow for different
variations depending on water volume.
There were places in canyon Ferrier with probably 20+ bolts in a
space the size of a kitchen.
Bolts were the most common anchor, although there were a
few "drilled threads". (drill thru a chunk of solid rock and thread
it with cord.)
The bolt anchors were either equalized with old climbing rope, or
were a commercial assembly like you saw in the video.
Very little webbing is used on anchors.
Most anchors had some sort of metal rappel ring.
Due to the sharp nature of the rock, great care has been used to
engineer anchors with minimum rope to rock contact.
Some anchors required via ferrata like traverses to reach.
Others required climbing traverses protected with bolts to reach.
We only brought a few ropes,so were extremely careful with our
rappel setups.
We used a Blue-water canyon pro and the new canyon pro DS.

http://tinyurl.com/ygfeag

A super light, super strong, super cut resistant rope.
Before the trip we were cutting the 600 foot spool of Canyon pro Ds
into the lenghts we needed.
This rope is very, very tough to cut thru !!!!

Rob

> tres bien!
>
> what was the anchor situation like there? I saw one in the video
that
> looked like a giant rap ring of sorts. Did you have to find many
of your
> own or use natural anchors...or were they all pretty established?
>
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Robert Cobb wrote:
>
> > Hot off the computer, Reunion Island Video part II.
> > New footage, new photos, new soundtrack.
> >
> > http://imageevent.com/robertcobb
> >
> > Enjoy.....
> > Rob
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

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Nice one!
I've been busy too, making videos insted of looking for work..
http://imageevent.com/canyoning_videos/run

Also uploaded a project I've been working on to youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXJUqsft0So

Still a work in progress that one, not happy with the audio levels
and got a bit more video to add.

So how's that rain going up there?
Send some my way, super dry in Sydney. 105deg Fahrenheit today with
hot, strong winds from the desert. Dryness + wind + lightning have
sparked up some monster fires. Several big fires currently burning
out massive chunks of canyon country up in the the bluies.
All national parks are closed and the fires are expected to leave
the park and start burning out properties tonight... and it's not
even offical 'bush fire season' just yet!

anyways enjoy the video
joe

--- In pnwcanyoning@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Cobb"
<robert_a_cobb@...> wrote:
>
> Glad you guys liked the video.
> The anchor situation on Reunion is quite a bit different than what
> we see here in the US.
> The canyons there get a huge amount of water thru them.
> Each drop has many,many bolts.
> Both sides of the drop are usually bolted to allow for different
> variations depending on water volume.
> There were places in canyon Ferrier with probably 20+ bolts in a
> space the size of a kitchen.
> Bolts were the most common anchor, although there were a
> few "drilled threads". (drill thru a chunk of solid rock and
thread
> it with cord.)
> The bolt anchors were either equalized with old climbing rope, or
> were a commercial assembly like you saw in the video.
> Very little webbing is used on anchors.
> Most anchors had some sort of metal rappel ring.
> Due to the sharp nature of the rock, great care has been used to
> engineer anchors with minimum rope to rock contact.
> Some anchors required via ferrata like traverses to reach.
> Others required climbing traverses protected with bolts to reach.
> We only brought a few ropes,so were extremely careful with our
> rappel setups.
> We used a Blue-water canyon pro and the new canyon pro DS.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ygfeag
>
> A super light, super strong, super cut resistant rope.
> Before the trip we were cutting the 600 foot spool of Canyon pro
Ds
> into the lenghts we needed.
> This rope is very, very tough to cut thru !!!!
>
> Rob
>
>
>
>
> > tres bien!
> >
> > what was the anchor situation like there? I saw one in the video
> that
> > looked like a giant rap ring of sorts. Did you have to find many
> of your
> > own or use natural anchors...or were they all pretty established?
> >
> > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Robert Cobb wrote:
> >
> > > Hot off the computer, Reunion Island Video part II.
> > > New footage, new photos, new soundtrack.
> > >
> > > http://imageevent.com/robertcobb
> > >
> > > Enjoy.....
> > > Rob
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>

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Got a little dizzy driving to the Ravine Gobert...

Nice.

Charly

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