Bad Canyon (2x) Rick Kent, Darija Malinauskas 1/8/2010 Badwater to Dantes View and back (via Bad Canyon) We hauled all gear (ropes) with us up to Dantes (no cache). Log 08:15a - Started hiking from Badwater parking lot 09:06a - Reached mouth of Hades Canyon 10:29a - Reached the red saddle at 1440 feet 01:53p - Reached the overlook just below Dantes View parking lot 02:05p - Dantes View parking lot 02:30p - Bad Canyon drop-in off ridge 03:11p - Bad Canyon 03:55p - First rappel 04:31p - Reached the big rappel 08:37p - Mouth of Bad Canyon 08:45p - Pavement 08:48p - Badwater Parking lot Stats Time from Badwater to Dantes View: 6 hrs 15 mins Time from Dantes View to Badwater via Bad Canyon: 6 hrs 18 mins Time car to car: 12 hrs 33 mins Notes Next time stash gear/food/water etc up at Dantes View the night before Probably possible that if we did it again (by caching gear) we could get up in 5 hrs and down in 5 hrs for a car to car time of 10 hrs Another option would be to use the Bad/Hades ridge and only climb to the Hades fault. We'd have to haul our gear if we did that though. W1 - tiny saddle on ridge at abt 1200 ft W2 - red saddle at 1440 feet. upper cyn does indeed drop into Hades. 002 - we went a little right and now we have to traverse left to get back onto ridge we want to go up 003 - another potential rap in upper cyn - all of these are easily bypassable 004 - W4 - another flat saddle on the ridge before it gets steep again 005 - W6 - last little saddle before the final climb to Dantes 006 - W7 - 1st possible place to drop into Bad Cyn - we're dropping here 007 - WBd530 - open wash 009 - Wbd532 010 - bd533 - now in Bad Cyn 011 - just past the fault cyn makes a turn where there's a 10 ft dc then a potential rap but you can bypass to the left 012 - it's a drop of abt 30 ft or just bypass on left (exposed) 013 - W8 - the optional rap 014 - the bypass around the left is a little exposed - climb down 40-50 feet 015 - after opt rap are a few short easy dc then easy going on sandy bottom 016 - W9 - easy going is suddenly interupted by a 20 ft dc - use the small crack on the left 017 - looks like W9 is more like 25 ft dc 018 - then easy going again with a few short downclimbs 019 - W10 - first of two debris flows 020 - 2 downclimbs (before the debris flows) - first one Darija landed on my shoulders (tricky), 2nd dc trivial, then easy going again 021 - W11 - another 15 ft dc 022 - W12 - nice marbling - light orange with grey stripes marbled in 023 - also at W12 is first rap using a pinch on the left 024 - R1 90 ft. 2 step but you rap past the step 025 - W13 or 14 - another rap right after R1 of abt 25 ft + 25 to anchor - but it is possible to dc on left 026 - nevermind - we couldn't bypass - it was a rap afterall (R2) 027 - R2 was 50 ft (25 + 25) 028 - beyond R2 cyn starts to narrow then there's a short easy 20ft dc into a nice 3-4 ft wide corridor 029 - beyond the corridor is an easy 6 ft dc 030 - then a couple more short dcs of 6 ft and 3 ft 031 - W14 - big rap - climb out on ledge to left 032 - big rap is 170 ft. might be possible to rerig and rap down directly at the drop instead of rapping down the side 033 - looking back at the alternate way to do the big rap 034 - W15 - R4 starts 70 ft from base of 3rd rap. small rock protrusion on the right makes a convenient anchor. 60 ft rap? 035 - R4 was between 60-70 ft (lets say 70) 036 - R4 is followed by a short 6 ft dc 037 - shortly after R4 is a dc of abt 30 ft (last 10 ft is a little tricky) - use a partner assist 038 - then just a couple hundred ft to R5 with a substantial rock cairn anchor. looks like another big 2 rope rap. 039 - R5 was somewhere over 100 ft (maybe under 150?) followed by a downclimb sequence. last 20 ft are a little tricky but not bad. 040 - W17 - R6 041 - R6 from a solid boulder was 60 ft from ring. boulder was 20 ft back. looks like a rap over 40 ft - goes over a chockstone 042 - W19 - an embedded stream boulder with a lip on back for anchor (10-12 ft from start of rap). Rap R7 maybe 30 ft. 043 - W19 - dc down a crack on the left 044 - 30 ft dc after R7 045 - we're doing a rap off a bush here at W19 (maybe 60 ft) 046 - our rap from bush was (no dc on left) 047 - R9 at W20 (bottom of rap) - rap was maybe 150 ft 048 - W21 - base of 9th or 10th rap (last rap was somewhere around 50 ft) 049 - R9 or 10 was 60 ft 050 - W22 - shitty anchor for a drop of 30-40 ft - can be downclimbed - used just a handline 051 - final rap of abt 80 ft from a rock cairn anchor 052 - W23 (bottom of last rap) - last rap was 80 ft (2-stage). 1st stage maybe 15 ft. 053 - W24 mouth of Bad Canyon Raps R1 - 90 ft R2 - 25 + 25 ft R3 - 170 ft R4 - 70 ft R5 - 140 ft ??? R6 - 40 + 20 ft R7 - 30 + 12 ft R8 - R9 - R10 - To do Rap down directly into the deep slot instead of off the side. Will 200 ft of rope be enough?