{"id":160,"date":"2013-03-13T07:50:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T07:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/topfavoritelist.com\/river\/?page_id=160"},"modified":"2018-03-23T09:34:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T01:34:41","slug":"aboutcanyon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/en\/aboutcanyon\/","title":{"rendered":"What is River Tracing and Canyoning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h1>River Tracing<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-735\" src=\"https:\/\/shawatw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_1878.jpg\" alt=\"\u6c99\u86d9 \u6eaf\u6eaa\" width=\"274\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_1878.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_1878-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/>Originally river tracing means tracing a river to the source. It\u2019s a part of mountaineering, just like rock climbing. Real river tracing expeditions take days to travel to the source, then river tracers have to find their own way to get to the top of the mountain or it\u2019s ridge, usually there are always traditional mountain path to go downhill.\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">River tracers need to be skillful in swimming, traditional rock climbing, rigging, navigation, mountaineering, and in good fit.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The equipment used for river tracing is almost the same with rock climbing.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Real river tracing is risky and can get one killed. Because people could be exposed to height, dangerous water movement, rocks, misused ropes etc..<\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, river tracing experience (commercial trips) is much safer.\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The sections of creeks to go to for river tracing trips are selected.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">It must be easy to reach and get out, not too difficult and safe enough for everybody.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">It could be featured with waterfalls, pools, water jumps, slides.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-737\" src=\"https:\/\/shawatw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_2608.jpg\" alt=\"\u6c99\u86d9 \u6eaf\u6eaa &gt;\u8a8d\u8b58 \u6eaf\u6eaa\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_2608.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_2608-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_2608-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-748\" src=\"https:\/\/shawatw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\u6eaf\u6eaa \u73a9\u751a\u9ebc\" width=\"321\" height=\"694\" \/><\/p>\n<p>River tracing was introduced to Taiwan by Japanese people.\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Taiwan and Japan are probably the only two countries go in for this kind of activity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Japanese developed \u6ca2\u767b\u308a Sawanobori (river climbing).\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">And Taiwanese call this \u6eaf\u6eaa Xuo-Xi in Chinese, translated as river tracing or river trekking in English. It\u2019s a style to travel up-stream, opposite to canyoning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3447 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/shawatw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/aboutcanyon1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"shawa canyoning taiwan-about1\" width=\"257\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/aboutcanyon1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/aboutcanyon1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/aboutcanyon1-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/aboutcanyon1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/>Canyoning<\/h1>\n<p>Opposite to river tracing, canyoning is travelling down-stream, and requiring more descending techniques with ropes and all of it should be retrievable. The terrain suitable for canyoning is steeper and narrower than for river tracing. Canyoners travel down-stream in a canyon, they need to abseil down or jump down or slide down or climb down obstacles, and get to the exit at the end.<\/p>\n<p>Canyoning was developed in Europe, and spread worldwide nowadays.\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The canyoning population is so big now that even Adidas manufacturing wetsuit and shoes for canyoning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shawa Canyoning has acquired modern\u00a0canyoning techniques from ICOpro (International Canyoning Organization for Pro) and ASM (Australia School of Mountaineering). And on it\u2019s way to become an ICOpro training center.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3448\" src=\"https:\/\/shawatw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/aboutcanyon2.jpg\" alt=\"shawa canyoning taiwan-about2\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/aboutcanyon2.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/aboutcanyon2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/aboutcanyon2-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>River Tracing Originally river tracing means tracing a river to the source. It\u2019s a part of mountaineering, just like rock climbing. Real river tracing expeditions take days to travel to the source, then river tracers have to find their own way to get to the top of the mountain or it\u2019s ridge, usually there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3830,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions\/3830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawatw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}