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Trip report: landslide damage confirmed at Corbin Creek
A recent run confirmed what RopeWiki flagged this year — R4 and R10 anchors at Corbin Creek Canyon are compromised. Notes from the trip and what we rigged instead.
RopeWiki’s page for Corbin Creek Canyon already flags this, but we wanted to confirm it firsthand before passing it along: the landslide damage from earlier this year has genuinely changed two of the ten rappels.
At R4, the original anchor is gone — buried or swept, we couldn’t tell which. We rigged around a cluster of downed trees instead, which worked but ate more time than the original station would have. Bring extra webbing if you’re running this before it gets a proper fix.
At R10, the primary tree anchor has fallen. There’s a backup, but it repositions the rope line enough that your last rappeller should be prepared for a slightly different fall line than earlier trip reports describe.
Everything else on the route matched the current RopeWiki description closely. Ten rappels, genuinely no downtime between most of them — this is not the canyon to run if your team’s changeovers aren’t already fast and clean.
If you run this soon, please add your own observations to the RopeWiki page directly — that’s the version other people will actually see before their trip, not just this post.
