Conditions:Change Creek-20240724044051

Latest:	20 Jul 2024 (6 mos ago)

Reported by:	SidViscous (1 reports)
Quality:	Good
Waterflow:	Moderate Low
Wetsuit:	Thin wetsuit
Water temperature:
Difficulty:	Normal
Time:	6 hours

Team: 3 people with experience level Beginner to Intermediate

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Comments: Nice place on a hot day. All anchors seemed to be in good condition. Flow was low but still fun. Attempted to tighten the spinner on the last rappel to no avail.

All condition reports

Date	Quality	Waterflow	Wetsuit	Difficulty	Time	Team	Reported by
20 Jul 2024	Good	Moderate Low	Thin wetsuit	Normal	6 hours	3 people Beginner to Intermediate	SidViscous (1 reports)
Comment: Nice place on a hot day. All anchors seemed to be in good condition. Flow was low but still fun. Attempted to tighten the spinner on the last rappel to no avail.
27 May 2024	Great	Moderate	Thin wetsuit	Easy	6 hours	2 people	Jkthompson760 (4 reports)
Comment: More water than we thought there would be. Had to bypass one rappel that woulda been dangerous due to flow levels. Great conditions to play in the water.
8 May 2024	Good	Moderate High	Thin wetsuit	Normal	5 hours	4 people Beginner to Advanced	Adammai (5 reports)
Comment: Fun day with mostly clear skies and good flow. Hiked directly up canyon right (UCR). Avoided water on R5. Fun with the water flowing.
8 May 2024	Great	Moderate High	Full wetsuit	Normal	5 hours	4 people Beginner to Advanced	Reiternick (32 reports)
Comment: Rap 1 rappeller’s left bolt spins a little. Placed webbing DCR prior to rap 3 bolts, otherwise all anchors in good shape.
8 Oct 2023	Good	Moderate Low	Full wetsuit	Normal	5 hours	3 people Intermediate to Brand new	Korey (54 reports)
Comment: Fun day in low flow conditions introducing some new people to the sport! As other reports mention, there are a lot of downed trees on both the hike in and the creek walk out.
5 Aug 2023	Ok	Low	Thin wetsuit	Easy	3 hours	1 people Advanced	Canyon Hopper (8 reports)
Comment: Figured I’d check out flow on a rainy day. Was still low, but not very low as it would’ve been otherwise. Probably not worth doing aside from beginner trips until it rains more. Quick afternoon trip, all anchors in good condition. Very slippery
14 May 2023	Great	High	Full wetsuit	Normal	5 hours	2 people Advanced	AdamB (41 reports),Coops (108 reports)
Comment: Great day in the canyon. High flow was very fun.
8 Aug 2022	Great	Moderate Low	Thin wetsuit	Normal	6 hours	3 people Brand new to Intermediate	Mfeingol (51 reports)
Comment: Water levels were on the low side, but we had a great time taking someone very new to canyoning through the creek. Anchors were in great condition (thanks, Becca). Compared to last year, there's been some upheaval with tree and rock falls in the lower part of the canyon. The approach is also a bit more of a slog than it was in the past, thanks to giant fallen trees. We were grateful for the flagging a couple of times where the trail was hard to spot. At R8 the bolt station is very exposed. We opted to rig a traverse line from a log instead of multi-staging from the R7 anchors.
24 Jun 2022	Good	Moderate	Thick wetsuit	Normal	5 hours	4 people Advanced	Mads (59 reports)
Comment: Fun flow right now! There were huge floods in Change Creek this winter/spring and a lot of new logs and debris in the canyon. We spent time cleaning up and sawing away the most annoying stuff. R1 anchor was buried under 4” of gravel. R3 flow has been completely diverted to DCL with no flow at the rootball anchor, due to new tree fall that caused gravel to build up DCR. R7 bolts were buried by a landslide and fallen trees. We excavated them but we do NOT recommend using them as after we moved on we saw rockfall coming down right where the bolts were — use the DCR tree instead and link R7 and R8. We cleared the approach trail of overgrowth, checked and fixed up all of the anchors, and the canyon’s good to go.
15 Aug 2021	Good	Very Low	Thin wetsuit	Normal	3 hours	5 people Beginner to Intermediate	Ecakiryan (12 reports)
Comment: Good conditions. Even though water is low, it still made a fun outing. 3 of us had 3mm wetsuits on, while 2 people did not wear a wetsuit.
18 Jul 2021	Good	Low	Full wetsuit	Easy	8 hours	8 people Brand new to Advanced	Mads (59 reports)
24 Jun 2021	Good	Moderate Low	Full wetsuit	Normal	4 hours	6 people Beginner to Advanced	Beccap (43 reports)
Comment: good, friendly flow. Note: R2 does not need webbing, and the bolts are best left unlinked. While it's out of the main flow, it's not out of the path of potential winter flood damage. If a tree limb gets caught on webbing left behind, it will destroy these bolts. Please leave them unlinked. The rope pulls just fine if you back away from the base of the rappel for a good pull angle.
4 May 2021	Good	High	Full wetsuit	Normal	6 hours	9 people Brand new to Advanced	Andrewsandstrom (46 reports)
Comment: The trail is in good condition, well marked. It had rained hard the night before so the creek was full at the parking lot. Not a real issue because most rappels have the option to go to the side of the flow. Stuck a rope on the large rappel on the multi stage, but were able to release it because there was a rope going down the dry side and folks still up top to give it a yank. Really like this canyon for beginners
1 Nov 2020	Good	Moderate	Drysuit	Normal	5 hours	3 people Brand new to Intermediate	Beccap (43 reports)
Comment: I was lured by the "58 and sunny" forecast and envisioned myself rappelling in moderate-high flow with sunshine greeting me at the bottom of each drop... but if I had used my head I would have realized that of course a north facing creek doesn't get a single minute of sun on November 1. Definitely a dry suit day and two of us were in wetsuits. We stayed just above shivering but only by choosing the dry lines. The water was very cold. Still, it was nice to get out canyoning. I'm skeptical that the stream gauges mean much for flow indication in this creek, so I'll share the recent weather patterns: In the middle two weeks of October, North Bend got something like 7" of rain. The water tables were definitely saturated. This past week has been dry and sunny, with the exception of 1/4" rain early Friday morning. With a 1 mile catchment, the flows drop quickly - just a week of dry weather and it was a solid moderate flow. Change creek is really improving thanks to the efforts of a handful of folks in the community. Great to see well-placed bolts taking the place of some natural anchors that were causing quite a bit of erosion.
31 Oct 2020	Great	Moderate	Drysuit	Normal	4 hours	3 people Intermediate to Advanced	Coops (108 reports)
Comment: First time down Change Creek for the group. Started hiking up at ~10am; fully geared-up at the top by 11am; and back at the car for 2pm. We spotted the reference point from the path (and even had cell signal to compare it to ropewiki). We had fun getting pounded in the (cold) flow, but it wasn't a problematic volume, nor was it unavoidable if desired. Probably at the limit of an average wet suit, I was glad to have a dry suit on. Despite a fun & fast day we still had some rope grief. The rope wouldn't pull on R2, so had to be ascended and re-rigged with less friction. Then on R3 we core-shot the rope on the sharp lip at the top, so we "creeped" the ropes from then on. An all round great (half) day out!

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