Conditions:Half Dilly-20250129153301

Latest:	28 Jan 2025 (18 days ago)

Reported by:	Sstaverman (12 reports)
Quality:	Great
Waterflow:	Dry
Wetsuit:	None
Water temperature:
Difficulty:	Normal
Time:	2 hours

Team: 1 people with experience level Intermediate

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Comments: Really great route! This is my second time through and it was as good as I remembered. Props to the folks who came out and set these bomber bolts. There was a trickle at most at some of the rappels, but it snowed the entire time and made for a beautiful evening run. 1 hr 45 mins car to car.

All condition reports

Date	Quality	Waterflow	Wetsuit	Difficulty	Time	Team	Reported by
9 Feb 2025	Great				2 hours	1 people Advanced	RFontaine (240 reports)
Comment: Solo run late afternoon! Beautiful little route lots of juice for the squeeze! Last rap always really nice! B lined it up from Fay Canyon taking the knife edge ridge. This approach took me 45min, shaves some time and saves a shuttle or road walk. New bolts and chains are solid, nicely done! On R3 stay RDC of little tree poking out of cliff to avoid cactus below. On final rappel, I like ghosting off tree center in watercourse, slightly better rap on my opinion.
28 Jan 2025	Great	Dry	None	Normal	2 hours	1 people Intermediate	Sstaverman (12 reports)
Comment: Really great route! This is my second time through and it was as good as I remembered. Props to the folks who came out and set these bomber bolts. There was a trickle at most at some of the rappels, but it snowed the entire time and made for a beautiful evening run. 1 hr 45 mins car to car.
20 Jan 2025	Great	Dry	None	Easy	3 hours	4 people Beginner to Expert	LLRae (5 reports)
Comment: Used the bolted anchors. Route is in great shape. Beautiful approach.
19 Jan 2025	Good			Normal	3 hours	5 people	EMoorcroft (439 reports)
Comment: R3 lands in a cactus if you go too far LDC. Set the rope RDC and closer to the watercourse. Always a fun little banger. Bolted anchors looked good. No extra tat was nice, looks clean!
16 Dec 2024	Good	Dry	None	Normal	5 hours	3 people	AZ Advocate (41 reports)
Comment: An excellent day tidying up this beautiful drainage with some excellent new friends. For future groups, consider extending some kindness, and maybe some water, to the mangled pine at R1, since us canyoners are the ones who mangled it.
13 Dec 2024	Good	Dry		Normal	3 hours	3 people	Nclegg (387 reports)
Comment: The R1 canyon right anchor placement has been causing damage to a small pine by the lip as well as a large agave. Anchor was adjusted to its original placement off a pine on canyon left. Removed worn, sun-baked webbing from around a large boulder at R2, high above the watercourse on canyon left, and used the established anchor down in the watercourse. Other anchor material was still fairly fresh.
12 Dec 2024	Good	Dry	None	Normal	4 hours	2 people	AZ Advocate (41 reports)
Comment: Easy cruise through this beautiful canyon. All anchors were in good shape but the poor tree at R1 is getting demolished by the anchor webbing since the bolt was removed. Planning to move the anchor to LDC for R1 on the next run.
28 Nov 2024	Good	Dry		Normal	4 hours	4 people Intermediate to Expert	Mm01 (2 reports)
Comment: Thanksgiving. “5k”. All anchors were there today. 1” black milspec , most of which is single strand tied at each end with single QL. Worked great but inspect each time as there is abrasion at each of the first 3. (Certainly would benefit from a well placed glue in on 1-3 if permitted). GPX and Gaia were pretty spot on. Major thanks to those before who opened that approach. Great hike in!
17 Nov 2024	Great	Dry	None	Easy	3 hours	5 people Beginner to Intermediate	Scattcatt (3 reports)
Comment: All webbing and anchors have been cleared out. Come prepared to place your own anchors for all 4 raps. A little disappointing to see, but our crew still had an excellent time. We just used a Smooth Operator on all the normal anchor points for raps 2-4. Rap 1 the bolt has been removed, but there's a tree RDC that can be used.
17 Nov 2024	Great	Dry	None	Normal		7 people Brand new to Advanced	Myownhigh (5 reports)
Comment: Like Scattcatt, also disappointed to see someone had cleared out all the anchors in the lower half of Dillenger Canyon. We did replace them all, so they are brand new as of today. I guess my take away from this is have enough webbing to replace every anchor ever in the canyon you are in (even canyons that see heavy use), or have some sort of back up plan for when you run out of webbing. We did full dilly today and replaced 5 anchors. We still had a great day, and it's a beautiful canyon with good pay to play ratio.
31 Oct 2024	Great	Dry		Normal		7 people	Briwellman (59 reports)
Comment: Fun Halloween canyon!
24 Oct 2024		Dry					Dyln cole (43 reports)
Comment: Replaced R4 webbing, all other webbing looks great and R1 bolt/ring is prime.
22 Sep 2024	Great	Dry	None	Normal	4 hours	2 people Beginner to Advanced	Chrischumphrey (2 reports)
20 Sep 2024	Good			Normal	3 hours	2 people Brand new to Advanced	EMoorcroft (439 reports)
Comment: Cloudy conditions, dry in the canyon. Fun as always. Anchors looked new/ good (Thanks Tom). Took a quick side trip to the overlook. 3.5 hours car to car. Great bang for the buck.
31 Aug 2024	Good			Normal	3 hours	5 people Intermediate	PsychoWard (31 reports)
Comment: Mosquitos were out strong. Canyon was as fun as I remember it. Someone removed webbing from a couple trees. We ghosted off the trees due to that. Other anchors were in good shape. Webbing on last rap was brand new looking and bomber.

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