Conditions:Big Spring Canyon (West Fork)-20240918150100
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1 Apr 2024 (1 yr, 1 month ago) |
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| Reported by: | Firemedicwilcox (3 reports) | |
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| Quality: | Amazing |
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| Waterflow: | Low |
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| Wetsuit: | Thin wetsuit |
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| Difficulty: | Advanced |
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| Time: |  4 hours
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Team: 2 people with experience level Expert to Advanced
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Comments: Completed this on 4/14/24. Lots of potholes with waist deep or less water. All of it cold and nasty. We wore full wetsuits and were cooking most of the time. Lots of great anchor problems. We used a sandtrap for the big raps & down climbed the rest. There are buried rock anchors with fairly new webbing at all the drops, but we didn’t want to unbury them to inspect, so we used the sandtrap. Easy route finding, super fun, very scenic canyon. One pothole required a partner assist to escape. 2 experienced canyoneers, took us about 4 hrs.
All condition reports
| Date | Quality | Waterflow | Wetsuit | Difficulty | Time | Team | Reported by |
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| Amazing | Low
| Thin wetsuit
| Advanced | 4 hours
| 2 people Expert to Advanced | Firemedicwilcox (3 reports) | |
Comment: Completed this on 4/14/24. Lots of potholes with waist deep or less water. All of it cold and nasty. We wore full wetsuits and were cooking most of the time. Lots of great anchor problems. We used a sandtrap for the big raps & down climbed the rest. There are buried rock anchors with fairly new webbing at all the drops, but we didn’t want to unbury them to inspect, so we used the sandtrap. Easy route finding, super fun, very scenic canyon. One pothole required a partner assist to escape. 2 experienced canyoneers, took us about 4 hrs.
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| | | |  7 hours
| 3 people Beginner to Advanced | Cheveran (92 reports) | ||
Comment: Wonderful canyon. Incredibly scenic, lots of bridges and arches, as scenic as high spur IMO but more interesting as a canyon. Time was for W and E forks. There is a keeper pothole early in the W fork. It can be avoided, but why skip out on the fun? We enjoyed creative anchoring and very fun sequencing throughout the canyon. Happy to have a sandtrap, used it a couple of times. You can keep going down canyon a bit more than RTR's beta suggests for some more fun and exit near about the point where the E forks exits.
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| | | | | Candition.com (287 reports) | |||
Comment: Most recent conditions reported at Candition.com, see Trip Report for full details.
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