Conditions:Scorpion Canyon-20231030031002

Latest:	29 Oct 2023 (1 month ago)

Reported by:	Kmiller (5 reports)
Quality:	Great
Waterflow:	Dry
Wetsuit:	None
Water temperature:
Difficulty:	Normal
Time:	5 hours

Team: 3 people

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Comments: Most anchors were still standing (yay for Cressman Mongo anchors!) and only needed to be dug out and webbing replaced. One or two anchors had to be rebuilt. Any anchors left untouched were downclimbed or and alternate anchor was used (rap 3). Fun short day.

All condition reports

Date	Quality	Waterflow	Wetsuit	Difficulty	Time	Team	Reported by
29 Oct 2023	Great	Dry	None	Normal	5 hours	3 people	Kmiller (5 reports)
Comment: Most anchors were still standing (yay for Cressman Mongo anchors!) and only needed to be dug out and webbing replaced. One or two anchors had to be rebuilt. Any anchors left untouched were downclimbed or and alternate anchor was used (rap 3). Fun short day.
27 Mar 2023	Great	Dry	None	Normal	4 hours	7 people Brand new to Advanced	Feroz (26 reports),Boof (24 reports),Levr (20 reports),Giniya5 (7 reports),Knight (7 reports)
Comment: Great option to get people comfortable with cairn anchors! We had a fun half-day with some leapfrogging at a good speed.
21 Feb 2023	Great	Dry	None	Normal	5 hours	6 people Beginner to Advanced	Julienlecorps (3 reports)
Comment: Anchors and webbing looked good. Make sure to backtrack 100’ from the parking area to start the hike in the right wash. We got sucked in by a well worn trail to the north and followed what we thought were approach footprints up loose ridges before backtracking to the right wash.
18 Feb 2023	Good	Dry	None	Normal	8 hours	12 people Beginner to Expert	Dangel (151 reports)
Comment: Taught a bunch of cavers and rescuers marginal anchors techniques.
21 Jan 2023	Great	Dry	None	Normal	5 hours	2 people Intermediate	David (7 reports)
Comment: Like some other reports, we got off on our approach. Easy enough to get back on course once we got up to the ridge. Webbing at all anchors looked new. The anchors themselves were all well built and solid.
2 Jan 2023	Good	Dry	None	Normal	4 hours	3 people Beginner to Advanced	Desertnights (16 reports)
Comment: Haven't run this canyon in a while but decided to have a relaxing day and take a friend that hasn't been down it before through. There were 4 improperly constructed anchors that we fixed. Rap 2 had webbing just tied around the rock in a loop and it came apart when my husband lifted the rock to inspect it. Raps 5, 6, & 7 had girthed the rock but not cinched the hitches so they were literally just webbing being held but the weight of the rocks and well constructed formations. All webbing was new and undamaged. It was a great overcast day so nice and cool in the lower section.
22 Dec 2022	Amazing	Dry	None	Normal	6 hours	3 people Beginner to Advanced	Mfeingol (42 reports)
Comment: Beautiful canyon with an easy approach. Amazing geology and some very unique rocks. Anchors were in great condition. Most of the rappels seemed slightly shorter than what the beta suggested.
3 Jan 2021	Great	Dry	None	Special challenges	4 hours	3 people	Willie92708 (812 reports)
Comment: We got a bit off on the approach and summited a ridge to the north of the main Scorpion wash. Many others apparently have gone this way too given all the foot tracks. It was easy enough to to get down into the main wash from this summit, just a bit of extra climbing overall. The canyon has nice rappels with plenty of "fun" lips. Also many short downclimbs to add to the fun factor. All the anchors are good with fresh webbing, but I will note that some of the rock cairns are not super strong, so don't be to bouncy on them.
27 Nov 2020	Good	Dry	None	Normal	6 hours	6 people Beginner to Expert	Lsangaila (3 reports)
15 Feb 2020	Great	Dry	None	Normal	7 hours	11 people Brand new to Expert	Dangel (151 reports),SavvasE (8 reports)
Comment: Many of the anchors were refreshed/replaced if we used them. Fiddled off the last rappel as a retrievable anchor, so plan extra webbing for that if you don't have the materials or skills to do the same. I would expect this time to be an outlier because we were doing a specialized trip for learning about various marginal anchor techniques.
8 Jan 2017 Trip report							HikeArizona.com (271 reports)
Comment: Most recent conditions reported at HikeArizona.com, see Trip Report for full details.
7 Jan 2017 Trip report							Candition.com (287 reports)
Comment: Most recent conditions reported at Candition.com, see Trip Report for full details.
7 Jan 2017 Trip report	Amazing						CanditionBot (2096 reports)
Comment: See the full condition report at Candition.com. Submitted by bnwilso.
7 Mar 2016	Great			Normal	6 hours	4 people Beginner to Advanced	DMonroy (185 reports)
Comment: The gate was closed, though all other reports said it was open. On closer inspection, there is a padlock, but it wasn't locked. We decided to leave the gate as in and hike up from the road, adding a few extra easy miles to the trip. We came across a cairn anchor between raps 1 and 2 with a 30 - 40 foot drop. This can in no safe way be a down climb, but it wasn't listed on the beta so I added it to the ropewiki page. The colors in this canyon are fantastic. It should have been named Rainbow Canyon. At the last anchor we discovered a little next of scorpions around the webbing. We carefully left them alone, but be wary.
16 Feb 2016 Trip report	Great	Dry	None	Normal	6 hours	7 people Brand new to Advanced	French de (32 reports)
Comment: The canyon was in great shape. We replaced some webbing on a couple of anchors and replaced the anchor on the alternate rap 3. The alternate rap 3 is a fun rap with an easy and safer anchor. The 20 Mule Team road is now open. It was nicely bladed on 02/15/2016

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