Conditions:Icebox Canyon (Zion National Park)-Candition20110626 ElectricGr
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26 Jun 2011 (14 yrs, 11 mos ago) |
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| Reported by: | CanditionBot (2103 reports) | |
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| Location: | Icebox Canyon (Zion National Park) | |
| Quality: | Great |
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Trip report URL: http://www.candition.com/canyons/icebox-canyon
Comments: See the full condition report at Candition.com. Submitted by ElectricGr.
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| Date | Quality | Waterflow | Wetsuit | Difficulty | Time | Team | Reported by |
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| Great | | None 
| |  12 hours
| 4 people Intermediate to Advanced | RFontaine (377 reports) | |
Comment: Some of the best Riparian Canyon Ive experienced, with a fun big wall drop in to boot!
Hike starts on trail then turns off to follow the creek. There are some faint meandering trails on either side of the creek, bushwhack wasn't too bad at any point. After following creek a ways, ascending the ridge beautiful views in all directions. We decided to cut off to the South Entrance or "Slickrock Entrance". Our friends who had only ever done the North Entry were to delighted to say this saved us a lot of extra bushwhacking up top. The slanted V notch corridor was very neat. Puts you out on a patio where you down climb a short ways to the first 3 bolt anchor. I think approach took around 3 hours. Each anchor on the big wall sequence is a hanging 3 or 4 bolt station out in the sun. I replaced webbing on each of these anchors so get it before it fries. The webbing will likely not last long in the full sun as the stuff we pulled out was white as a ghost! These anchors use a ton of webbing btw as the bolts are small and old with some pitons thrown into the mix. Each one minimum 3 bolt/piton equalized so come prepared. The big wall sequence was fantastic! Very fun stuff! definitely want 3 big ropes to cycle a group through efficiently! Our team members that had only done North Entry remarked that the big wall drops were far more exciting than North and the landing further down cuts off some bushwhack in canyon. The canyon floor is lush and beautiful! Big colorful towering walls with seeping stripes everywhere and plenty of water. A bit bushy but again not terrible, easily navigable with open spots and not choked to the point of annoyance. It does eventually clear out for for easy travel. No poison ivy, very few thorns. The namesake Icebox feature is a narrow awkwardly slanted swimmer corridor below a short rappel. I was able to stem the entire thing with some careful effort. It sounded pretty cold from those that didnt stem, I was glad to keep my bag and rope dry. Immediately after the Icebox is a short chest deep wade where I could carry my bag over my head. That was the most of the unavoidable water. Alot of sun, would not want a wetsuit. Plenty of other shallow opportunities to get wet through out to cool off. Beautiful towering multi color walls and long reaching views within the canyon. Really nice! Final rappel would be around 160 total if staying DCL or could be broken up into a 100 and a 60 with tree on DCL bench below rappel. Hike out from canyon to trail had lots of interesting bouldery scrambles, took about an hour then another 3 hours on trail to car. Alot of water available to filter on trail. Really beautiful diverse route and an excellent riparian style canyon. Took us just over 12hrs at a leisurely pace.
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