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24 sats \ 3 replies \ @tomlaies 7 Jan \ on: What's the most extreme thing you've done outdoors, or tried to? Ask_SN
Going Canyoning in Corsica when I was around 15.
Back in the day the island wasn't overrun by tourists. So much so that in the mountains the locals (mostly old people since most people <40 moved to the mainland) would actively come to you to have smalltalk etc.
Anyways, back in the day the Canyoning wasn't even a tourist industry yet. A friend from a family we did our Corsica vacation together with and I followed some native teenagers straight through the woods (no trail) until we were at the creek. Followed the stream, natural slides and jumping down into trues.
Real Gopro stuff but back in the day we didn't think about that - we just lived in the moment. These canyons are mostly surrounded by fences or with "experience" businesses nowadays. It's over. It will never again like it once was.
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I was just looking through my old pictures how these natural canyons are. Unfortunately I had nothing on me in that year but I made a picture of a similar canyon a few years later with an ipod touch lol:
The one we descended was much less forested. But you can see the natural slides.