Conditions:Charon Canyon-20241225141745

Latest:	24 Dec 2024 (20 days ago)

Reported by:	Cheveran (84 reports)
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Time:	9 hours

Team: 7 people with experience level Beginner to Advanced

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Comments: Great canyon. Replaced many of the anchors. The approach hike is enjoyable and has a few 3rd class moves (some optional). The canyon has fun movement throughout. One of my favorites in the area.

All condition reports

Date	Quality	Waterflow	Wetsuit	Difficulty	Time	Team	Reported by
24 Dec 2024					9 hours	7 people Beginner to Advanced	Cheveran (84 reports)
Comment: Great canyon. Replaced many of the anchors. The approach hike is enjoyable and has a few 3rd class moves (some optional). The canyon has fun movement throughout. One of my favorites in the area.
26 Mar 2023	Great	Dry	None	Normal		6 people Intermediate to Expert	Bricepollock (36 reports)
Comment: One of the more slotty Death Valley canyons. We also stuck our rope on the false floor rappel for a time, recommend double stranding. The approach is a workout but mostly chill in terms of exposure and more quality rock than I'm used to in Death Valley.
10 Feb 2023	Great	Dry		Special challenges	10 hours	4 people Advanced	Coalemus (159 reports)
Comment: Stuck 3 ropes! On R7 (with the false floor), the biner got wedged in a pinch RDC, we ascended and went double, watching rope placement. Later, the rope got twisted up with the biner. Finally, there is a rap with a crack down the center, in which the ropes got stuck. We fixed all my ascending and changing the config. Was a cursed day! Anchors were all in good condition. Not really sure why this canyon has a "4" rating. Perhaps because of the cairn anchors?
10 Dec 2022	Amazing	Dry	None	Normal	10 hours	3 people	Willie92708 (973 reports)
Comment: The approach climb took a bit over 3 hours. The canyon is amazingly deep and sculptured with interesting down-climbs. The anchors were all straightforward, although quite a bit of webbing we replaced. Overall a sweet run although it was 9:50 car to car.
5 Dec 2020	Great	Dry	None	Normal			JPugh (6 reports)
Comment: Fantastic day in the canyon. Overall, anchors and webbing are looking good. Some of the webbing is starting to look a bit old, so be sure to inspect. An additonal anchor was added an R8 to give the option of staying in the watercourse (the pre existing anchor which is a large rock upper canyon left was not disturbed).
30 Nov 2019	Great	Dry	Rain jacket	Normal	10 hours	7 people Intermediate to Expert	Dangel (157 reports),Abby Wines (39 reports),Exitfiftyone (21 reports),Jem jem (3 reports)
Comment: Dangel: I just loved this canyon. The downclimbs were fun. The colors lovely. We saw some sheep bones and a tarantula. The approach from bottom up seemed a little bigger than some of the other Black Mountains like Demios. I liked that there wasn't a mile long alluvium walk at the end (just a 1/3 mile). We started at first light and did the last rappel in the dark without feeling like were were rushing. We replaced many but not all of the anchors. One member of our team said that one of the thicker rope anchors was a remnant of the first decent. It's a very faded blue/teal at this point, it's definitely worth swapping out due to age if you're headed through.