Conditions:Big Faddy-20220411002204
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10 Apr 2022 (3 yrs, 1 month ago) |
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| Reported by: | Nclegg (407 reports) | |
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| Quality: | Good |
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| Waterflow: | Low |
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| Wetsuit: | Full wetsuit |
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| Difficulty: | Normal |
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| Time: |  4 hours
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Team: 4 people with experience level Intermediate to Advanced
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Comments: Low flow and deep pools. Multiple short swims. Slid R4 and jumped R5. Pulled the rope at first stage of R6 and jumped from the second stage. Some pools were just deep enough for jumps and slides, check depth first. Comfortable in 5mm wetsuit. Others had less neoprene and managed. A pretty canyon with lots of tiered pools and sculpted quartzite.
All condition reports
| Date | Quality | Waterflow | Wetsuit | Difficulty | Time | Team | Reported by |
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| Good | Low
| Full wetsuit
| Normal | 4 hours
| 4 people Intermediate to Advanced | Nclegg (407 reports) | |
Comment: Low flow and deep pools. Multiple short swims. Slid R4 and jumped R5. Pulled the rope at first stage of R6 and jumped from the second stage. Some pools were just deep enough for jumps and slides, check depth first. Comfortable in 5mm wetsuit. Others had less neoprene and managed. A pretty canyon with lots of tiered pools and sculpted quartzite.
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| Good | Low
| Thin wetsuit
| Normal | 4 hours
| 4 people Intermediate to Advanced | EMoorcroft (450 reports) | |
Comment: Anchors in good shape. Knot chock looked good and easy to inspect. Blue webbing is fading and has some good stretch to it, maybe need replacing soon. The jumps and slides were the highlight, but getting shallow so best to wade it out first. Thin wet suits kept us from shivering but we warmed up quick with jumping jacks. Rock is polished and the slides are slick. Exiting LUC just after last rapp was loose in spots but short and quick.
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| Great | Moderate Low
| Thick wetsuit 
| |  5 hours
| 2 people Advanced | RFontaine (270 reports) | |
Comment: Beautiful fun little canyon with some flow! Every rappel was a lovely waterfall! Lots of deep pools and swimmers. Replaced webbing and anchors where needed. Knot chocks are totally bomber, no worries there! We were definitely happy to have 7mm wetsuits, very cold water. Hung out a bit to enjoy the falls and drink beer! Approach and exit were easy. No shuttle needed. We exited up the downstream drainage instead of following the KML. This was fairly clean and not too brushy. Beta has been updated.
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| Great | Moderate
| None 
| Normal | 7 hours
| 2 people Beginner to Intermediate | Do52in52 (5 reports) | |
| Good | Low
| Full wetsuit
| Normal | 6 hours
| 5 people Beginner to Advanced | Erek (206 reports) | |
Comment: Very cold water. Nice area and scenic. At least one swimmer pool.
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| Good | Low
| Thin wetsuit
| Normal | 4 hours
| 4 people Intermediate to Advanced | PatWinstanley (80 reports) | |
Comment: Nice, short, easy route. Had a light flow, making the canyon more scenic, but not enough to push you around - a few short swims. Most anchors in good shape, replaced one where webbing was damaged from maybe rockfall - webbing was fairly new. Anchors are easy - if you are not familiar with construction or evaluation of knot chock anchors (there were 2 - placements were bomber) or if you just don't think they are safe, simply bring webbing and make an anchor from the many boulders in the canyon - though you may have to extend a bit. "Ghosting is required" doesn't make any sense to me here. There is no reason why you would be required to use a releasable anchor in a remote place like this; there are no popular hiking trails nearby, etc.
Exited after rap 6 on the left to gain the rim as beta suggested, no class 4, but a few moves of class 3. I was a bit confused as to why we were climbing out where we did instead of finishing the main arm of the canyon, then hiking up the drainage coming up on the left very shortly after, it looked like it goes with no problems. Did not find the mine camp or whatever the author mentions in the beta (we looked all over on the exit), but that appeared to be the idea.
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