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Fosso di Poggio Cerasa

Fosso di Poggio Cerasa is a little, usually dry tributary of Fosso del Curso. It reaches the main stream with a sequence of dryfalls carved in canyon's wall.
Descent of Poggio Cerasa creek continues through Curso canyon.

I remember ...

The vast majority of canyoneers identifies canyoning with waterfalls descent. This opinion is born because much of the equipment and techniques used in canyoning are aimed at waterfalls abseiling. According to this widespread opinion, what characterizes canyoning is a technical element and not the environment, it is the descent of the waterfall and not the canyon, and therefore a canyon without waterfalls is not a canyoning route. By extension, some people do not consider a real canyoning route a canyon with a few waterfalls of modest height, which can be descended without the thrill of the void, perhaps even by downclimbing or diving...

I think differently: what characterizes canyoning is environment, made up of waterfalls, yes, but also of boulders or downclimbable steps, slippery rocks, pools, vegetation, walls, ...
At Fosso di Poggio Cerasa, however, there are waterfalls (dryfalls, in truth), there is the thrill of the void and once you reach the main stream there are pools, slippery rocks, walls, ...

Photographs in this page picture Fosso di Poggio Cerasa only. You can see Fosso del Curso photographs in the dedicated page.

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