Conditions:Wretched Canyon-20151207170934
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6 Dec 2015 (10 yrs, 4 mos ago) |
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| Reported by: | Xenonrocket (112 reports) | |
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| Location: | Wretched Canyon | |
| Quality: | Great |
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| Waterflow: | Dry |
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| Wetsuit: | None |
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| Difficulty: | Normal |
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| Time: |  5 hours
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Team: 3 people with experience level Intermediate to Expert
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Comments: Nice canyon! Most of the approach is up a fairly loose face that you'll want to watch out for rockfall on. Most anchors had webbing added to them on Oct 26. We cut out a few hundred feet of old webbing and replaced webbing that wasn't replaced on Oct 26. Lots of the webbing placed Oct 26 is obnoxious bright orange, so if you have a chance to swap it with black or something better, that'd be cool. Some of the downclimbs had loose rock that broke away when grabbed, including the 40' one of black rock. This is a great canyon for a Sunday morning if you want to be back in LA early.
All condition reports
| Date | Quality | Waterflow | Wetsuit | Difficulty | Time | Team | Reported by |
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| Good | Dry
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| Special challenges | 8 hours
| 3 people Brand new to Advanced | Wyoung (12 reports) | |
Comment: Removed old orange webbing and added new Blue webbing for raps 1-6. An intermediate anchor between rap 6 and 7 was re-slung using (old) 10mm climbing rope that salvaged from rap 2 or 3. All of the cairns for these anchors were rebuilt to be smaller so that webbing can easily be replaced next time.
The intermediate anchor and rap 7 need new webbing. Rap 8 had no anchor and was done as a double-strand off the large rock on LDC. The rope pull was not bad, but the large rock had somewhat sharp corners.
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| Great | Dry
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| Normal | 5 hours
| 3 people Intermediate to Expert | Xenonrocket (112 reports) | |
Comment: Nice canyon! Most of the approach is up a fairly loose face that you'll want to watch out for rockfall on. Most anchors had webbing added to them on Oct 26. We cut out a few hundred feet of old webbing and replaced webbing that wasn't replaced on Oct 26. Lots of the webbing placed Oct 26 is obnoxious bright orange, so if you have a chance to swap it with black or something better, that'd be cool. Some of the downclimbs had loose rock that broke away when grabbed, including the 40' one of black rock.
This is a great canyon for a Sunday morning if you want to be back in LA early.
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