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| | Canyoneering | 1.00 Miles | 7 Hrs | | 0.14 mph |
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| | Intermediate Canyoneering - Difficult or dangerous; Tech Climb; rope reqd; descent anchor; exit technical; | | A - Dry or little water; shallow or avoidable water; no wet/dry suit | | II - Normally requires a half day |
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| no partners | | Super fun checking out this exploratory canyon. Been on the list for awhile. Found a nice spot to launch with a one mile packraft that avoided the busy area of the lake. Not a lot of options to get out near the "dam ahead" barrier. I ended up accidently brushing my packraft into a cacti getting out  . Decided to fully deflate and stash to deal with it later. I did have several patches and UV aquaseal so I was not too worried. With no beta other than Google Earth and topo we scouted out the last rappel. Found a couple game trails and lot's of jackrabbit droppings climbing up on the east side of the canyon. After dropping in at 2,000' to scout out the canyon we decided the east finger at 2,200' looked the most exciting. Two rappels down to the main drainage and one gnarly bushwhack.
Pleasantly surprised to not find any anchors or signs of human presence. We built 5 natural anchors in the main section of the canyon. Although I down climbed one of them. Claiming this as a first descent as ghosting would have been next to impossible for a couple of the rappels. Unless someone was very creative and did not rappel then scrambled back out. |
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