Quandary Canyon
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| | Difficulty:4B III (v4a2 III) Raps:7, max ↨66ft
Red Tape:No permit required Shuttle:None Vehicle:4WD - High Clearance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Condition Reports: | 22 Apr 2025
"Fun canyon! Pothole section is great; beyond that, its hours and hours of walking.. Some potholes were swimmers, others were dry. We used the pots |
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| Best season: | Late Spring through Early Fall
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38.5702, -110.9280
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WaterflowIntroduction[edit]
A rare opportunity to see what real keeper potholes are. There are about a dozen potholes in the pothole section, and usually two in keeper mode. Get your potshots out for this! One exit option is left at Muddy Creek and up Ramp Canyon, which in addition to being shorter also avoids the necessity of a shuttle. Camping at the top of Ramp Canyon is available.
- Note: This canyon is rated as 4B III because of the keeper potholes. If bypassing the pothole section then this would be a 3B III route; however, since most will be choosing this canyon for the potholes, and because it is possible to miss the bypass, the harder rating it the superseding one.
Perhaps the quickest way to do the pothole section is to park at the Factory Butte side (the SE side of the swell), hike up Muddy Creek to access the end of the slot, and then hike up the Bypass Route in order to drop into the slot. Then you can run the pothole section, which is the best and hardest part of the canyon, and return the way you came. This could be done in seven hours reasonably.
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Beta sites[edit]
RoadTripRyan.com : Quandary Canyon- Stav is Lost : Quandary Canyon Direct, June 17, 2023
- Super Amazing Map : Quandry Canyon
- Climb-Utah.com : Quandary Canyon
- CanyoneeringUSA.com : Quandary Canyon & Quandary Direct
- SummitPost.org : Quandary Canyon
Trip reports and media[edit]
- http://www.bogley.com/forum/showthread.php?55002-Quandary-Direct-TR-May-15-2011&p=455407#post455407
- https://www.facebook.com/pat.winstanley.7/media_set?set=a.714049408653759.1073741915.100001461198708&type=3
- Candition.com : Quandary