Sentinel Canyon
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| | Difficulty:3A III (v3a1 III) Raps:13, max ↨130ft
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| Condition Reports: | 11 Dec 2022
"Headed up to do Feral Ass, but decided to drop into Sentinel halfway up. According to GPS waypoints from Scott that meant we just missed two rappels b |
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| Best season: | Nov-Mar (avg for this region)
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36.0842, -117.1902
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Introduction[edit]
Approach[edit]
From the road head towards the mouth of Sentinel Canyon. A little to the right of the mouth there is a light colored dirt pile you climb up. It looks easier than it is and was hard to gain traction. It eases around 1550', if you want to save some time you can drop into Sentinel at 1900' but miss the top two rappels.
Descent[edit]
We entered the canyon at 1900' and missed the top two rappels but the rest of the canyon went like this:
- Two 10 ft downclimbs
- 15 ft rappel fiddlesticked off boulder
- 12 ft off slotted rock chock
- 70 ft two stage rappel (30ft then 20ft drop) off cairn (replaced knot chock)
- 25 ft off cairn, less than vertical
- 60ft off chocked cairn down pink salt looking partial flute
- 40 ft off braced cairn
- Small down climb to 70 ft rappel off big rock cairn
- 30ft fiddlesticked off small tree
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Background[edit]
First Descent on 11-23-18 by Scott Swaney and team - see report above for details