Collossus Canyon
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| | Difficulty:4A IV R (v5a1 IV) Raps:6, max ↨660ft
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| Best season: | Nov-Mar (avg for this region)
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35.9984, -116.0756
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Introduction[edit]
A big 800' wall drop in the canyon watercourse as it pours over from the upper drainage. Can be done with a very long rope, or split into stages to help with the rope pull (and avoid hanging up a rope on the pull-down) Scott did the big wall drop with a rappel of 660' from the top anchor, down to the end of the rope-bag hanging there. And set another anchor there, and did a 2nd rappel of 210' to the bottom, for a total descent on this wall of 800'plus with 2 Raps. However, the crew with me split up the wall into more rappels because of the ledges along the way that could hang up the rope on the pull down. Which is probably the best option to choose if you want your rope back without too much of a gamble. Even doing the rappel sequence with that better option, the rope still got stuck on the wall and would not pull down. So I had to free-solo rock-climb back up, without a rope, to retrieve the snagged rope, & then down-climb back down. Doing so is a very real risk having to do it that way. That's why we use ropes.
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Descent[edit]
First Descent by Scott Swaney and Team (see trip report for details) on 1-24-16
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Trip reports and media[edit]
FIRST DESCENT TRIP REPORT:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153873914892930.668617929&type=3
Background[edit]
First Descent by Scott Swaney and Team (see trip report above) on 1-24-16
