Deadeye Dick Canyon
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| | Difficulty:3A II (v3a1 II) Raps:6, max ↨99ft
Red Tape:No permit required Shuttle:None Vehicle:High Clearance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Condition Reports: | 8 Oct 2025
"We were surprised by a pool of dirty, cold, chest deep water in the first section of narrows, followed by a waist deep pool. We descended this section |
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| Best season: | Spring; Summer; Fall
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37.3653, -112.8937
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Introduction
Approach
If you have a high clearance vehicle, you might be able to drive past the official trailhead parking and shave 4 miles from the hike parking at the wilderness boundary.
Follow the Virgin River down canyon until eventually turning off into a drainage. A 15’ smooth vertical cute is eventually encountered that must be upclimbed, most would consider this unprotected class 5 climbing.
A few more small climbs are encountered along the way. Move up and over the hills then along a game trail traverse to descend down into Deadeye Dick
Descent
All anchors are natural, including a ghostable carin anchor at R1 and a deadman further down canyon
It is recommended to combine the descent with Mighty Mouse Canyon, which should add just 1h extra.
Exit
Red tape
Beta sites
BluuGnome.com : Deadeye Dick Canyon- CanyoneeringUSA.com : Deadeye Dick
- RoadTripRyan.com : Deadeye Dick Canyon
Zion Canyoneering Book by Tom Jones : Deadeye Dick- CanyonCollective.com : Deadeye Dick
- Super Amazing Map : Deadeye Dick
Trip reports and media
- https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153404357756103.1073742033.669366102&type=1&l=96d8d5119f
Background
Rappel waypoints courtesy of Bluugnome.com