Canyoning the Furon

Laurent took us on the first half of the FuronCanyon in the Vercors. I borrowed a wet suit from Laurent, and barely crammed myself into it, while Lolo and Chloe fit into theirs easily

The water is shallow and very very cold, even in the sweltering heat we've been having.

The first difficult part was a jump into a narrow canyon. Its possible to rappell it, but Lolo had been there last week and had scoped out the pool at the bottom, which was quite deep. Here, he describes how to get down in one piece


and a look down into the gorge

Lolo after a successful jump

A little hesitation by chloe

... and a JUMP!!

And thirty three feet later

Lolo getting set up for another jump

and a few seconds to take a picture and let our hearts calm down a bit

Slogging out of the first constriction


and then to another jump




etc etc




It was really fun, and perfect for a hot day. From parking to parking it took us 2 hours, so its not a very long canyon. We didnt do the second part because we didn't have a rope to do the large rappel further down the river.