Coffin Canyon
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| | Difficulty:3A III (v3a1 III) Raps:5-7, max ↨190ft
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| Condition Reports: | 14 Mar 2025
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| Best season: | Nov-Mar (avg for this region)
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36.1562, -116.7507
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Introduction[edit]
Coffin is a great canyon for a half-day trip. This scenic drainage starts off as a wide flat wash but then narrows and drops suddenly. It's got great views on the hike up, some beautiful narrow sections and even a giant chock stone reminiscent of "Levitated Mass".
Approach[edit]
Descent[edit]
Waypoints in the KML map contain detailed descriptions of all the rappels (courtesy of Bluugnome.com).
The first drop in the canyon is 40ft from a cairn anchor. This can be avoided via a moderate downclimb RDC if you like avoiding rappels.
Shortly down canyon from here there is another downclimb/rappel of 30ft. If you choose to downclimb this, the easiest way to do so it to stem down a slot RDC from the established rappel anchor.
In order to avoid confusion on the rappel numbers matching the .kml only the 5 rappels are numbered. Most parties will likely have a few more rappels.
Rappel 1: 190' from 2 bolts backed up by a cairn anchor.
Rappel 2: 60' (Anchored 30' up canyon with a 30' rappel)
Rappel 3: 30' from 2 bolts a bit over head high. (can be combined with previous rappel)
Rappel 4: 20'
Rappel 5: 80'
Exit[edit]
Red tape[edit]
Beta sites[edit]
BluuGnome.com : Coffin Canyon- Chris Brennen's Adventure Hikes (Southwest) : Coffin Canyon
- Super Amazing Map : Coffin Canyon
Trip reports and media[edit]
- Lori Curry on Canyon Tales : Styx & Coffin
- https://www.stavislost.com/hikes/trail/coffin-canyon
- http://www.bogley.com/forum/showthread.php?67696-Coffin-Death-Valley-02-17-13&p=527606#post527606
- http://adamhaydock.blogspot.com/2017/02/coffin-canyon-3aii-death-valley.html