Conditions:Dwarf Canyon-20251019223525
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18 Oct 2025 (4 days ago) |
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| Reported by: | Kristoffer (14 reports), Emoleas (1 reports) | |
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| Quality: | Good |
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| Waterflow: | Dry |
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| Wetsuit: | None |
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| Difficulty: | Normal |
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| Time: |  8 hours
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Team: 3 people with experience level Advanced to Beginner
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Comments: This was a great half-day canyon to do on a first or last day of a Eureka Dunes trip. We had a group of 3 including one beginner where this was her first technical canyon. We started at noon after staying up after 2am the previous night observing the stars with telescopes and took 8 hrs car to car. We were moving at a leisurely pace, meat-anchored several downclimbs and probably added an extra rappel beyond the regular beta.
The approach was objectively somewhat chossy but pretty solid by death valley standards. We fiddled most drops, ghosting several and replacing webbing slings on a couple others. We hiked out by headlamp which was a welcome reprieve from the heat of the day and spent the evening looking at the stars until after 1am
One drop was anchored some distance back from the lip and we used ~215' of rope, with the fiddlestick right by the anchor. If we only had a 200' we would have needed to extend it with webbing to reach the ground, and a 230+' rope would be ideal to get the fiddlestick right up on the lip for a clean pull.
All condition reports
| Date | Quality | Waterflow | Wetsuit | Difficulty | Time | Team | Reported by |
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| Good | Dry
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| Normal | 8 hours
| 3 people Advanced to Beginner | Kristoffer (14 reports),Emoleas (1 reports) | |
Comment: This was a great half-day canyon to do on a first or last day of a Eureka Dunes trip. We had a group of 3 including one beginner where this was her first technical canyon. We started at noon after staying up after 2am the previous night observing the stars with telescopes and took 8 hrs car to car. We were moving at a leisurely pace, meat-anchored several downclimbs and probably added an extra rappel beyond the regular beta.
The approach was objectively somewhat chossy but pretty solid by death valley standards. We fiddled most drops, ghosting several and replacing webbing slings on a couple others. We hiked out by headlamp which was a welcome reprieve from the heat of the day and spent the evening looking at the stars until after 1am One drop was anchored some distance back from the lip and we used ~215' of rope, with the fiddlestick right by the anchor. If we only had a 200' we would have needed to extend it with webbing to reach the ground, and a 230+' rope would be ideal to get the fiddlestick right up on the lip for a clean pull.
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| Great | Dry
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| Normal | 8 hours
| 3 people Beginner to Expert | Exitfiftyone (22 reports) | |
Comment: Dwarf was an enjoyable "Sunday canyon" with a series of nice polished drops in succession. We tried to ghost a couple rappel stations by slinging ropes around boulders but had a stuck rope scare - don't do what we did! We counted 2 more optional rappels at the beginning of the canyon that can be downclimbed. We did come upon a large drop that we needed to rig with a 200' rope - the drop is about 160' and the anchor is about 40' back, so I will update the longest rap length.
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