Christopher Creek Canyon
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 2.01 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,145 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 1,119 ft
- Max elevation
- 5,685 ft
- TrailRank
- 15
- Min elevation
- 5,259 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- one hour 16 minutes
- Time
- 4 hours one minute
- Coordinates
- 584
- Uploaded
- August 8, 2021
- Recorded
- August 2021
near Bear Flat, Arizona (United States)
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A beautiful hike down Christopher Creek's drainage. Several straightforward rapelles but some require through significant waterfalls. Ends in sport climbing area. With the constant in and out of water and mandatory swims, consider a wetsuit even in summer.
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Looks awesome. Thanks for the add. How is it in a late autumn dry season? Should I still plan to get drenched? Are there any ways to do some part of this while staying dry? Also, are there ways to hike the canyon while avoiding the more intense climbing belaying aspects? I want to go here with my lady friend, but she's new to the climbing scene- don't want to scare here off the sport before she really gets into it.
Have not done it in the dryer seasons but my assumption would be that this would still have several mandatory swims and rappels. I would also caution to say we did it when it was in the upper 90's and did not wear wet suits and several in our party were freezing through a good portion. Wetsuits highly recommneded.