Canyoneering with Kellogg LEX

Canyoneering in Arizona

The Southern Terrain has been offering canyoneering in northern Arizona for several years and this past program with the Kellogg LEX team was one of the best. This group of future leaders are all studying at the prestigious Kellogg School of Management. Each fall this group travels to the southwest to enjoy a weekend in the canyons to push their boundaries by trying something outside their comfort zone.

Rappelling at the Overlook in Sedona

The team arrived into Phoenix late on Friday night and made it to an already set up camp in the wonderful town of Sedona. The following morning the guides at The Southern Terrain prepared a hot breakfast before departing to the spectacular overlook in Oak Creek Canyon. It was very windy at the overlook which made this training day challenging yet effective for the LEX team.  After several rappels and climbs the group loaded up in the vans and began the drive up to the Grand Canyon. The drive gave everyone a chance to catch up on sleep before we began our next day of adventure.

The Famous Horseshoe Bend

Can You See the Person Rappelling?

As we arrived to camp we were greeted by our guides who had camp all set up and amazing snacks ready for us. After an hour of relaxing at camp we were wowed by the magic of the Dutch Oven and fabulous cooking by Josh. We all had a great night's sleep underneath the Vermillion Cliffs with thoughts of what was to come the following day. The next morning we woke up to spectacular weather, and while it took a little to get going, the entire team was up and out of camp by 7:30 AM. As we ventured out of the region we had the chance to look at the famous Horseshoe Bend which is certainly one of nature's true natural wonders.

The hike into the canyon is almost as amazing as the canyon itself. Once we arrived to our canyon everyone was glad we had the opportunity the previous day to practice our technique and be more comfortable being on the rope. The first person down had an uninterrupted view of the canyon and the images we saw were something out of a story book.

Our first rappel was almost 200 feet and the guides at The Southern Terrain were patient and helpful in trying to encourage the group to enjoy the experience.

Final Section of the 200 ft. rappel

After the group was in the canyon we began navigating through the slot with several rappels of various lengths. There is one section where we had to jump into the cold water up to our waist and wade through before making it out to the other end. There is a section just after the water that is extremely picturesque with all the rappels lined up in a row. All this while surrounded by an amazing streaked wall of sandstone soaring a thousand feet up above. 

Tapestry Wall

As we moved through the canyon each person was becoming more and more comfortable with the rappels. The final rappel was special, and even though it was over 150 ft., it is so smooth and fun it was one of the best of the day. 

The final day of the program was a great hike down to the River. The hike traveled through a narrow slot canyon, without any rappels, and made its way out to the River. 

The trip was fantastic and we wanted to thank all the participants for an amazing effort throughout each day. We are looking forward to seeing you all again on a future program.

If you are interested in canyoneering in Los Angeles or canyoneering in the remote canyons of northern Arizona, The Southern Terrain would love to share their passion for this region with you. Please visit our website at www.thesouthernterrain.com or give is a call on our office line + 1 (858) 356-9411. You can also e-mail is directly at info@thesouthernterrain.com. 

Until next time this is TST signing off.

Last Rap

The Kellogg LEX Team

Fall Rock Climbing Promotion

Get outside this fall and come climbing with The Southern Terrain, great special for a 4 hour session only $45.00!!

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Fall-Rock-Climbing-Special.html?soid=1103577314891&aid=yo5WPq_T5a4

TST Promotes Rock Climbing

Today marks the day that we officially (courtesy of GroupOn) begin the promotion of our Inland Empire (Riverside County) rock climbing site.  We are really excited as a company to continue growing our rock climbing program and now be able to extend it outside of San Diego County.  If you live in Southern California but possibly outside of San Diego County you definitely need to check out this site that has amazing rock, long moderate routes and incredible views of Lake Perris and bald eagles.  Climbing at Big Rock


We thank all of our clients locally, domestically and internationally for supporting us and allowing our business to experience growth.  

The Southern Terrain

info@thesouthernterrain.com

858-356-9411

Good Morning Southern Californians,


First off thanks to all our wonderful clients out there that have climbed with us over the Summer and Fall and for those that purchased more climbing through promotions over the past few months.  


Our long awaited and slightly delayed launch of the Inland Empire Rock climbing GroupOn promotion is finally set to launch on Friday December 10th and run straight through the weekend.  Check it out here http://bit.ly/aVkOWo as early as 12 am on Friday to climb at the impressive Big Rock.  We will be offering our 4 hour session for $55 which is over 50% off.  For those of you in San Diego it may be a bit of a drive (close to an hour) but if you're up for something new it's an awesome place to climb for all ability levels.

Big Rock is also one of the closest and best places to climb for those that live in Orange County and the LA area so keep that in mind.  We will be scheduling sessions there as early as next weekend so book now.  

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Till Next time

Andrew Roberts

andrew.roberts@thesouthernterrain.com

858.880.5220

TST Rock Climbing Promotions

Yup so we've gotten kind of slack with the blogger posts but we've had an abnormally busy fall season and we're not about to complain about it.  Rock climbing has been busy every weekend, we've run several Canyoneering trips and Kevin and myself spent 3 days in Joshua Tree updating all of our AMGA qualifications to keep our skills top notch.  Plus it was a great excuse to do some climbing in the amazing climbing mecca of J-Tree with one of the rock legends Bob Gaines.

We've got an extremely busy few weeks coming up to close out 2010 with a bang and provide our clients excuses to get off their couches during the winter and spring of 2011 and spend some time with TST on local crags in Southern California.  Starting on Tuesday November 30th we will run a 3 day promotion with Groupon on their holiday website (Groupalicious) for climbing in Mission Trails and Dixon Lake for $55 (Groupalicious Link).  If you've climbed with us before come out again and we'll take you on different routes or use this as a good excuse to climb at a new area in North County on the beautiful Dixon Lake.  

We will also officially debut our newest climbing site in the Inland Empire at Big Rock on Lake Perris on December 13th.  We'll be offering the same deal there on the Inland Empire Groupon so check it out if you're interested.  Also keep in mind a TST gift certificate is a great Christmas present so inquire about one today.

Ok that's the end of my marketing spiel I promise I'll lace the next blog with some extra exciting adventure that we are in the middle of.  Till then take care

Andrew

andrew.roberts@thesouthernterrain.com

858.880.5220

www.thesouthernterrain.com

Inland Empire Rock Climbing Promotion November 20th

****UPDATE, GROUPON HAS CHANGED THE PROMOTION DATE STAYED TUNED, SHOULD BE THE FIRST WEEK OF DECEMBER****




First off I'd like to tell everyone to check out our newly redesigned rock climbing web pages that we have up that now include the sites of Lake Dixon in North County San Diego and Big Rock in the Inland Empire on Lake Perris.  So on a slow day at work go here and tool around a little http://bit.ly/afXqWy  also read about our two newest rock guides. 

In addition to offering 20% off if you mention reading this post on climbing at both of these new sites we are also launching another Groupon Rock Climbing promotion on November 19th that will run for 3 days.  This first promotion will be on the Inland Empire page http://bit.ly/aVkOWo and will be for Big Rock.  We will be offering our 4 hour session for $55 which is over 50% off.  For those of you in San Diego it may be a bit of a drive (close to an hour) but if you're up for something new it's an awesome place to climb for all ability levels.

Also keep an eye out for Groupon's holiday specials that will begin running after Thanksgiving, we will be featured the first week of December for a week with rock climbing deals for both Mission Trails and Dixon Lake.  Stay tuned I'll post more information as the date comes closer.

So check out our pages, buy some climbing sessions and attack the Groupon offer and we'll be seeing you on the rock soon.

+Andrew

andrew.roberts@thesouthernterrain.com

858-880-5220

The Ring of Fire Volcanoes via #constantcontact

Volcanoes, Canyons and Rock yup it's all in there, check out the news.

The Ring of Fire Volcanoes via #constantcontact

Out of The Office in Big Rock Lake Perris

In the day to day hustle of running a company things continuously come up and it seems like you never have time to sit back and enjoy what you're doing.  Over the past few months Kevin and myself have tried to start spending at least one day away from the office and guiding to go out and explore something new, something exciting and something that has potential to offer to our clients. 

This is very difficult to do at times but we've been successful over the past few weeks at finding some pretty sweet climbing spots to take clients and even corporate groups for team building activities.  This past Friday we took a hunch from one of our guides Joshua and headed up to Riverside County to an amazing area that looks out over Lake Perris.  We walked the 3/4 of a mile to the site and the clouds had everything socked in pretty good as we began getting gear sorted and putting on harnesses.  As we began climbing so did the clouds and the sun poked out revealing an amazing view of the lake and a lone bald eagle keeping a watch on us as we ascended the 200 foot high rock face.

After a few warm up climbs, Joshua and Josh (yup confusing huh?) began up on a multi-pitch climb followed by Kevin and myself.  This was my first time back climbing since having major hip re-constructive surgery so I was slightly hesitant but extremely happy with the results by the end of the day.  We had a killer climb up with a nice traverse followed by another awesome crack climb.  We ended the day with a sweet 120 foot rappel down. 

 

So enough about all the fun we had at Big Rock on Friday and on to what all you guys want to hear about.  After our exploratory climbing session we've decided to move forward and establish a program here.  This will be a great opportunity for anyone from North County San Diego, Orange County, LA County and Riverside County to do some amazing climbing.  Big Rock offers very long but moderate routes that will be great for every skill level.  Within the next two weeks look for this to show up on our website (http://bit.ly/a50ASC) for climbing sessions and also private instruction will be offered.  The same rates will apply as for the other sites we climb at and we will provide all necessary equipment and instruction. 

On a side note, we're going to make a commitment to blog at least once a week so stay tuned......

Andrew

andrew.roberts@thesouthernterrain.com

858.880.5220

Rock Climbing San Diego Promotion

On Thursday September 23rd make sure to visit Living Social San Diego (www.livingsocial.com) to catch an incredible deal for a 4 hour rock climbing session from The Southern Terrain.  You can grab a place in a group for half the price ($50) of a normal session so grab one on Thursday and meet us on the rock.