Labels:text | screenshot | font | document OCR: Canyoning, also known as canyoneering, can best be described as an admixture of hiking, river rafting (sans raft), caving, rock climbing and cliff diving. At its most extreme, think of it as a sort of climbing in reverse, and add water. You're always descending, moving through rushing water, riding down waterfalls, barreling over rocks, jumping off overhangs, raging through "slots." In canyoning lore, the origin of the sport (or "activity" depending on who you talk to), in the U.S. at least, dates back to 1540, when Francisco de Coronado made his way up from Mexico through the slot canyons of the Colorado Plateau to the Colorado river. Canyoning's history, however, gets really interesting in the mid-eighteenth century. John D. Lee was banished, in the aftermath of the Mountain Meadows Mass ...
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