Typhon (Middle North Fork)
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| | Difficulty:3A IV (v3a1 IV) Raps:25, max ↨185ft
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| Condition Reports: | 16 Feb 2020
"This was Scotts documentation run of this Typhon fork, since the FD party in 2008 did not publish the data to Scotts liking. All the webbing found |
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| Best season: | Nov-Mar (avg for this region)
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Introduction
COMPLETED ALL OF TYPHON CANYON WITH NO MAN-MADE MATERIALS (used no webbing or rappel rings on any anchor for entire canyon)
Term "Ghosted" - in canyoneering to get down a canyon and leave nothing behind - leaving the canyon in a pristine state.
We went down this Death Valley Canyon with only a rope and a Retrievable tool (like a Fiddlestick retrievable tool), and used nothing else to anchor with. And we left no webbing, rappel rings, or any man-made material behind, as stated above. Nearly all the canyons done in Death Valley (DV), where only natural anchors have to be built, usually leave behind some webbing and a rappel ring that has been attached to something built there with natural items found in the canyon. This since Death valley does not allow bolting, pitons, climbing nuts, etc to be used as anchor materials. So up until now, all previous canyons there used at least some webbing and rap rings. This trip was to show that you can get down a DV canyon and no leave anything in the canyon except the rocks that were already there.
Approach
Descent
will be adding rappel beta with length and coordinates soon.
NOTE: There is a 185' rappel in South Fork of Typhon - and this canyon merges into the South Fork, and anyone has to get down the 185' rap when reaching the confluence. It is a multi-stage rappel, and no anchors are placed on the intermediate stages. No drops in Typhon (Middle North Fork) are that big (185').
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Trip reports and media
2-16-20 - Trip Report by Scott Swaney & Team, see details below in report:
https://www.facebook.com/scott.swaney/media_set?set=a.10158122221697930&type=3
Background
Original descent By: Rick Kent, Mike Schasch, Mike Cressman, 11-22-08.