Conditions:Crack Addict Canyon-20231113003538
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12 Nov 2023 (1 yr, 6 mos ago) |
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| Reported by: | EMoorcroft (450 reports) | |
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| Quality: | Good |
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| Difficulty: | Normal |
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| Time: |  5 hours
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Team: 4 people with experience level Advanced
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Comments: R 11 trees are dying and may no longer provide a good anchor source. Fun little route in oak creek. Fall colors were still nice.
All condition reports
| Date | Quality | Waterflow | Wetsuit | Difficulty | Time | Team | Reported by |
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| Great | Dry 
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| Normal | 5 hours
| 4 people Beginner to Advanced | Mfeingol (52 reports) | |
Comment: This is a really fun half-day canyon. One rappel after another through pretty scenery. Definitely worth the bottom-up ridge approach, which is a little steep at first and then scrambly later, but really not that bad. Our 5 hours included some time setting up a guided rappel over a tiny puddle of water, because why not?
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| Good | | | | 5 hours
| 4 people Intermediate to Advanced | RFontaine (271 reports) | |
Comment: A really good route with a bunch of decent rappels and lots of neat features throughout! We did the bottom up loop.. Steep, scrambly with very minimal bush. Having done top down in the past I much prefer this option, not as gnarly as the top down loop. Water was present but entirely avoidable. Exit down Sterling Canyon was pretty and easy. Again, way better than exiting back up to the rim!! 5 hours at a chill pace, even with some self rescue practice!
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| | | | 6 hours
| Dyln cole (74 reports) | |||
Comment: Webbing in good condition, went up sterling and back down to the 89, avoided R12 water easy, hot day.
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| Good | Dry
| None
| Normal | 7 hours
| 6 people | AZ Advocate (55 reports) | |
Comment: Familiarization run through Crack Addict today with Coconino County SAR. Lots of rappels, some funky/fun starts, and amazing scenery make this one an excellent place to get some great time on rope. Most anchor webbing was in great shape but there were a few which will need to be changed out within a month or 2. Set up a guideline with a double CEM at R12 as the pool at the bottom was still about 30-36" deep and unavoidable.
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| Good | Very Low 
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| Normal | 8 hours
| 4 people | AZ Advocate (55 reports) | |
Comment: Another fun tour through this gem, which is an excellent choice when summer sun chases you away from Sedona's routes. We replaced soggy webbing at R1 and removed new red webbing with double escape rings at R3, and R11 due to rock fall potential. All other anchor webbing was in great shape.
R11 and R12 are now bolted with placements which allow for easy pulls.
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| | | | | Skyotie (13 reports) | |||
Comment: Added webbing on DCR off living tree for R11. Approximately 20' long to allow for easy pull. Other anchors are all in good shape
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| Good | | | | 5 hours
| 4 people Beginner to Advanced | Mjbirdno (8 reports) | |
Comment: The LDC bypass at rappel 11 has very high rockfall potential. Lots of loose rocks came off as we did the new sequence of 2 rappels. If I did it again, I would sling webbing around the large boulder above R11 (up canyon from the prior / dying tree), cover the webbing on the back side with a stack of rocks, and extend the webbing 20-30 feet, closer to the edge.
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| Great | Very Low
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| | | Isaactcheek (1 reports) | ||
Comment: R11 tree anchor is very dead and very suspect. We chose to scramble to a ledge DCL to use a much sturdier tree, though it was in a slightly awkward position. If using the tree anchor DCL, be mindful of loose rocks.
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| Good | | | Normal | 5 hours
| 4 people Advanced | EMoorcroft (450 reports) | |
Comment: R 11 trees are dying and may no longer provide a good anchor source. Fun little route in oak creek. Fall colors were still nice.
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| Great | Very Low
| None
| Normal | 7 hours
| 2 people Beginner to Intermediate | AZ Advocate (55 reports) | |
Comment: We looped the canyon, starting from the bottom and ascended up Sterling Canyon. The vegetative hardships contained within Sterling Canyon deserve special recognition as the density of raspberries, locust, and other such spiny/thorny brush is truly remarkable. Apart from that, it's a great approach, brutal but great type 2 fun. Even in the summer, with an early 5:30am start we were shaded for the majority of the hike up. If hiking up Sterling, it's much much easier to drop into Crack Addict from the Upper Parking pin instead of the head of the drainage, like the GPX track on rope wiki shows. Trust me, you'll have had your fill of bushwhacking in Sterling, so unless you're anxious for more of the same, just drop in from the upper parking pin.
NOTE: If you owned a Sterling CanyonPrime rope which happened to get stuck on the last rappel, we hiked it out and left it at Peace Outfitters in Flagstaff. Just swing by to pick it up. Thank you Peace Outfitters!!
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| Great | Very Low
| None
| Normal |  10 hours
| 4 people Beginner to Intermediate | Az adventurer (1 reports) | |
Comment: Did the loop hike starting at the bottom from the highway and hiking up the ridgeline. Approach was doable but steep/loose in some sections. Canyon was overall mostly dry (small avoidable pools) except for the last rappel, where there was an unavoidable large pool of water at the bottom about waist deep. Replaced webbing at most anchors (except rap 10, we used 9 as an anchor for both 9 and 10). Awesome day and great canyon!
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| Great | Deep pools
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| Normal | 5 hours
| 4 people Brand new to Expert | Greatshaitan (45 reports) | |
Comment: Out here for a Mountain Rescue Conference and decided to run this guy. Was a fun trip with a couple of brand new people. Backed up the webbing on the rap 12. Also did a guided rappel to avoid the last swimmer, well all avoided but me :) We used two vehicles and exited to the road.
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| Very Low
| None
| Normal | 7 hours
| 2 people Beginner to Advanced | 24evolution (9 reports) | ||
| Great | Very Low
| None
| Normal |  4 hours
| 7 people Intermediate to Expert | Scientist (8 reports) | |
Comment: Since there is a construction zone, we did not park at the first switchback loop, instead started from a southbound parking past fish hatchery on 89a highway. Easy to find approach trail with some thorny bushes. There were just a couple of climbing spots that require good climbing skills. Nice and easy rappels with all anchors in good conditions. Second to last rappel was done by removing shoes and walking on a tree trunk in the freezing water with bare feet (ankle deep) or just walking with shoes on (gore-tex or canyoneering shoes with neoprene socks. Exit was easy to find and pretty fast.
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| Great | Very Low
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| | 7 hours
| 3 people Intermediate | Staceygirl (6 reports) | |
Comment: We did this as a loop from the upper parking and everything was just perfect until the exit hike, and I'm not talking about the fact that it started raining and hailing on us after rap 12. The GPS seems to be a bit off, and we wasted a LOT of time trying to make our way up some class 4 terrain only to be stopped by a chock stone. We went back down and finally realized we needed to go left to get into the correct drainage. I don't know if we found the best way, but we did it by following a near vertical gray wall on our left and climbing up some sketchy loose dirt until we got on a boulder. Then We were able to go left over another boulder into the drainage. We are hoping there is a better way that we just missed. After another while bushwhacking and boulder hopping, we saw that we had to go left straight up the loose dirt sides of the canyon through bushes galore. Again, not sure if there's a better way. It was very steep, but doable without any tricky moves or real exposure. Just pure grit to get through. If I did it again, I'd try for a car shuttle, as I've heard the 89 exit is not too hard.
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