Latest:	28 Feb 2021 (5 yrs, 1 month ago)

Reported by:	Erek (206 reports)
Location:	Robbers Roost Canyon
Quality:	Ok
Waterflow:	Dry
Wetsuit:	None
Water temperature:
Difficulty:	Normal
Time:	5 hours

Team: 2 people with experience level Advanced

Trip report URL:

Comments: Two hour approach, two hour canyon, one hour exit. Ghosted first two raps. Webbing good on last two rappels. Last rappel used 240' rope had at least 10' to spare. Dry. Smal amount of water on second rap, but easy to avoid. Lot of brush on exit.

All condition reports

Date	Quality	Waterflow	Wetsuit	Difficulty	Time	Team	Reported by
2 Jan 2026	Great	Dry	None	Normal		7 people Brand new to Advanced	BR (1 reports)
Comment: All the anchors were clean and only showed minor wear. The pool of water at R2 was easy to avoid. The upper portion of the canyon was draped in fog. Lessons learned: check your rope, we grabed our 200' rope not our 300' rope. We were able to tie ropes together to dessend R5 but it was not as simple as it should have been.
23 Dec 2025	Good	Dry		Normal	6 hours	4 people Brand new to Advanced	Triggerfish (88 reports)
Comment: Look, I would have loved to do a canyon new to me, but with different fit but new family in town, not enough wetsuits for all, and limited time, the Roost was a perfect fit. Having a second experienced team member to be FPD and fireman the rest makes this a great canyon for newbs, despite the tall final drop. All dry, save a few puddles along Carney, above the Roost. We stayed DCR after R4, almost alll the way to R5, which seemed to minimize whackage. R5 webbing (not old - dated mid Oct 2025), had become surprisingly stiff and mildly bleached, enough to tip us into replacing it. R5 webbing is much more exposed to sun than the other anchors.
9 Dec 2025	Good	Dry		Normal	7 hours	3 people Advanced to Brand new	Triggerfish (88 reports)
Comment: Brought visiting cousins. Good fit for people new to canyoneering, but willing to hike and bushwhack. R2 pool now near dry, easily avoided by all. Waterfall also dry. Beautiful weather! Removed the kinda crispy chartreuse extension strap at the big rap. With that gone webbing stretches and rope saws the edge much less. With the single remaining loop, my 230ish rope just touched ground when set with a toggle, and the toggle is easily set out in open space.
22 Oct 2025	Good	Very Low		Normal	7 hours	2 people Beginner to Advanced	Triggerfish (88 reports)
Comment: Surprisingly fun route!c, absolutely worth running. The only real Superstition thrash it has is part of that stretch between R4 and R5. The rappels are fun, the views are great, and the roost area up top is unique and striking. We took our time and had a great day. Anchors are all relatively fresh, solidly positioned, with clean pull lines. We cut and removed redundant old tat from R2 and R5, and moved the older, frozen, but functional R5 7mm li k to the very new (date helpfully written on it) webbing. Removed the newer, too-large link, cause it was so big I could pass my Attache and Am’d through it. Other R5 notes: The long webbing is great for pull angle (or, in our case, toggling). But as with anytime there’s a long nylon webbing, it becomes dynamic enough to cause rope sawing at the edge(even though the edge is not especially sharp). Consider edge protection, rope creeping, and to minimizing bounce while on rappel.
23 Nov 2024	Great	Dry	None	Normal	6 hours	3 people Intermediate to Advanced	An eea (2 reports)
Comment: Perfect, albeit a tad warm, day to go up Carney into the Roost and then down the technical exit. One person in our group did R1 while the other two replaced the missing anchor on R2 even though it can be downclimbed. R3 and R4 webbing was decent but will need replacement soon. That prickly pear on R4 is getting quite large so definitely trail the rope or drop your rope from just above. The bushwack to the last rap was a chore as always. R5 had a cluster of two faded and stiff 1 inch webbing and a faded and stiff 1/2 inch webbing--a total mess. The anchor webbing was replaced and extended to facilitate a good pull and if using a fiddle stick the fiddle stick would not be rubbing on rock. We easily could have cut our day by an hour but the weather was nice with a breeze so we took our time.
8 Jan 2023	Good	Very Low	None	Normal	6 hours	7 people Beginner to Advanced	Erek (206 reports)
Comment: Light trickle of water at last rappel. Second rap pool was shin deep. Replaced webbing at first and last rappel.
12 Dec 2021	Good	Dry	None	Normal	5 hours	1 people Advanced	Nclegg (467 reports)
Comment: Carney Springs Trail is steep and exposed/hot during all times of the year, recommend an early start. Decent routefinding skills required towards the end of the approach. Downclimbed R1, and somehow managed to traverse RDC at the base of R2 and just barely jump the pool. There was a slight trickle running over a few raps. Removed some of the prickly pear at R4. The brush between R4 and R5 is still rough in sections, though I found most of it to be quite forgiving. A few bees at the base of the final rap. They were friendly but slightly agitated when 460’ of rope came crashing down on top of them. Exited LDC on a nice hiking trail.
28 Feb 2021	Ok	Dry	None	Normal	5 hours	2 people Advanced	Erek (206 reports)
Comment: Two hour approach, two hour canyon, one hour exit. Ghosted first two raps. Webbing good on last two rappels. Last rappel used 240' rope had at least 10' to spare. Dry. Smal amount of water on second rap, but easy to avoid. Lot of brush on exit.
8 Dec 2019	Ok	Very Low	None	Normal	6 hours	8 people Brand new to Advanced	Erek (206 reports)
Comment: All anchors looked good. Setup zipline over only pool on rap 2 to keep most dry. Shin deep water in pool on rap 2. Can avoid most major bushwacking between rap 3 and 4 by traversing right and not dropping into drainage too soon. Somewhat sharp edge on rap 3, rope manage.
13 Oct 2019	Ok	Dry	None	Normal	7 hours	3 people Intermediate	Danelle (17 reports)
Comment: The big last rap was fun and the supes has a lot of beautiful views, but the bushwhacking between the last two raps and on the exit before reaching the Carney Springs Trail was brutal! Left with a lot of battle wounds. Large cactus after the first drop on Rap 3, took some team work to avoid. We took the long approach, visiting the Wave Cave first. Lots of boulder hopping and route finding throughout.
13 Oct 2019	Ok	Dry	None	Special challenges	7 hours	3 people Intermediate	Davidsnaz (25 reports)
Comment: We took the long route and went past Wave cave on on the approach. Be ready for plenty of Boulder hopping and brush. If you have a penchant for misery you'll enjoy the bushwhacking from rap 3 to rap 4. After leaving Charney Springs Trail stay in the water course until you gain the top. The track available on ropewiki lychee through a bunch of brush and holder hopping unnecessarily. The Trail is relatively well marked with cairns. Watch out for the massive prickly pear on rap 3.
2 Mar 2019	Good	Very Low	None	Normal	6 hours	4 people Intermediate to Advanced	Erek (206 reports)

13 Dec 2018	Ok	Dry	None	Normal	10 hours	3 people Brand new to Advanced	Felixrulz (80 reports)
Comment: Did this trip with Mum and Emily. Approached via Wave Cave and then traversed over to the canyon after gaining the ridge. This took a lot longer than taking the trail, as the slope was not Emily-friendly. We almost turned around and hiked back down, but ended up continuing to the top of the 'canyon' - which is really more of an abseil route. The area at the top is pretty cool with a giant balancing rock. 4 pitches here. the pool was low and easily avoidable. The 75m pitch posed the biggest challenge as we didn't bring enough rope. We managed to retrieve it by using joining prussic cords, harnesses, caribiners, a backpack into a 10m length... it got dark whilst doing this and we walked out with a headlamp/phones.
20 Feb 2016 Trip report	Amazing						HikeArizona.com (271 reports)
Comment: Most recent conditions reported at HikeArizona.com, see Trip Report for full details.