Back To Birch Hollow - Zion East Side
Quality Ratings
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11/09/2024
Quite chilly, even on a nice day. Took about 3.5 hours from trailhead to Orderville Junction. A few extra rappels that weren't in the beta. |
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10/01/2024
Steve, Jennie and I 2020 day before subway |
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08/13/2024
45 minutes to the first rappel. 245 total to orderville. |
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05/13/2024
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05/13/2024
Interesting canyon has a different character than any of the other canyons we did this week. The exit was brutal to the road. |
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04/03/2024
Lots of rain recently in this area which has caused a lot of mud and erosion. My friend tried to do this canyon the day before but had to turn around due to the muddy road to get to the trailhead (deep ruts). We tried on the 3rd and were successfully able to get our minivan (carefully) to the Birch trailhead. We dropped a truck off at the Orderville trailhead (using a high clearance vehicle), the road was pretty rough. The mud was unreal on the trail, but also slippery and funny. We encountered snow on the ground, cool ice formations under the waterfalls, ice over the creek after exiting the canyon portion with 1-2" of mud on top of that ice. We noticed tons of erosion near the exit point where you hike up to get to the orderville parking lot. Basically the hillside has come down and been washed down from the creek. All the webbing looked good and the canyon was super fun with our group of 8. Be careful with all that mud and don't lose any shoes. |
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11/11/2023
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10/20/2023
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09/09/2023
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09/08/2023
2 cars preferred for sure. Enter through Zion NP. A lot of bush whacking getting to the first rappel. After that it’s straight forward. Beautiful raps in the slot. It was muddy but not a stream. Hiking out was brutal. |
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10/16/2022
EliseTimothy-Brides first canyon |
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07/24/2022
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05/21/2022
Combine with orderville one of the funniest trips ever because of the Group. |
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05/07/2022
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05/07/2022
Had a wonderful experience. Would have taken us about 8 hours round trip (2 people, perhaps with 2 out of 4 levels of experience) with the Orderville exit (and beginning with a bicycle shuttle: highly recommended) had we not caught a ride in a truck bed from some friendly fellow canyoneers. Entered the canyon via an ATV road (Engelstead Hollow) just south of the standard TH, which was a gradual descent to the first rappel, until a scree-filled slide down at the end. There is a social trail forming to guide canyoneers down. - Added a backup anchor on the tree for the long rappel. - Encountered a small knee-deep pothole after the final rappel. It is avoidable with a handline (probably) but I slipped in anyway. :) Otherwise, the canyon is dry. - Walls on the third-to-last rappel (or so) are slick like glass despite being dry. Take care on the rappel to keep perpendicular. |
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04/03/2022
Codi, Tracy, Nancy, Hailey and Brothers, |
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12/05/2021
With Neaky |
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11/21/2021
Easy and fun canyon. Passed a few groups. The wild bushwhack exit is well established and easy to follow. The last rappel had water that was easy to go around. |
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11/20/2021
Andy and CHS |
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11/20/2021
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11/12/2021
Did it was Julie, Jamie, Travis, Jay, Justin. Took close to 11 hours!!! |
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10/16/2021
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10/06/2021
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08/30/2021
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08/21/2021
Very cool canyon. |
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08/02/2021
Good Day Taking newbies! |
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07/03/2021
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06/24/2021
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06/20/2021
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06/11/2021
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05/22/2021
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04/10/2021
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03/26/2021
beautiful area, muddy approach. weather was perfect |
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03/06/2021
w/ pa, T, Matt A |
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12/13/2020
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11/28/2020
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11/25/2020
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10/04/2020
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10/03/2020
Quick canyon with great rappels! Make sure to bring a good vehicle to leave at the Orderville trailhead. It will save you a decent stretch of walking. |
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08/03/2020
A shuttle would be best. |
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06/28/2020
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06/19/2020
Was a total blast to take kids down Defiantly need 2 cars for this trip other wise it is a long and grueling hike back to the trailhead Went with Mikey and CJ. |
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05/24/2020
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10/17/2019
Great Canyon. Short technical section. Easy hike in and out. Need shuttle. |
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09/24/2019
Awesome canyon would do this in a heart beat again Went with Mikey and his 2 kids Oliver and Lucy |
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09/21/2019
Dicks the day before |
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09/15/2019
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06/01/2019
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04/13/2019
Wet. Very Wet. Lots of mud which slowed us down considerably. Exiting the canyon was difficult as the outclimb was very soft. |
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04/08/2019
Mostly experienced group, some first timers, CO-guided. |
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04/01/2019
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10/20/2018
Singles group 15 guided through |
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10/05/2018
Russ Jon Noa Laurie |
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09/17/2018
with orderville. 9 hours. 4 people. dry with a little mud and wasps |
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09/16/2018
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08/07/2018
Lance and I - 5.5 hours. Next time need to bring a dirt bike and truck for shuttle and leave truck at orderville trail head. need to get there early and plan extra time to shuttle prior. we parked shuttle not far enough and spent about 3.5 hours hiking out. a lot of sun exposure and hiking up a dirt road. it's about 45 minutes to first rappel and an hour in the canyon. mostly a dry canyon but had one or two muddy spots |
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05/25/2018
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04/11/2018
Second group, had a first timer freeze on rappel and had to rig top belay |
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04/10/2018
CO-guided 23 first timers. Made it through in approx 4 hours |
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03/17/2018
snowy at the top. lots of water. near swim st bottom of big rap |
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11/26/2017
Between rappel 6 & 7 there is an additional rappel which is the same length as rappel 6 about 9m (30ft). So there was actually 9 rappels! Did a mountain bike shuttle so peddled from the ordervill trailhead to the exit trailhead too 30mins. Then from the exit trail head to the birch hollow trailhead was 45 mins. |
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11/26/2017
Awesome canyon, pretty, but exit requires 2 cars or mountain bike, as it is a long walk back to the trail head. |
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11/11/2017
There are actually 10 rappels! Sooo fun! Wear layers as it gets a little chilly through the canyon! |
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10/18/2017
Second group |
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10/17/2017
Co-guided singles trip through canyon |
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09/30/2017
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09/23/2017
Britt, Dan, and I. This trip is when homebody freaked out and untied in the middle of the first rap! |
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09/14/2017
First ever canyon!! |
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09/12/2017
More raps than listed |
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09/04/2017
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08/12/2017
Large group with Jared W. New canyoneering friends :) |
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05/29/2017
Birch to Orderville. Melody, Ben and I. Exited via tubing the narrows. Super fun. But later found out it isn't allowed ;( |
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05/28/2017
https://youtu.be/rMtP5klMbhs |
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09/19/2016
Really fun and beautiful raps. |
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10/08/2015
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06/27/2015
Awesome canyon, great rapps, recommendation would be to place a car shuttle at the lower parking lot. |
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06/01/2014
ym activity (date approx) |
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05/17/2014
Frickin' awesome! Wre told this was a busy canyon, but didn't run into anyone else down there, maybe because we didn't get started until 9:30am. Lots of beautiful rappels, some short, some a little longer. Bring two 200 foot ropes and have the first couple of people down go set up the next rappel and things will go a lot faster. Long hike out can be made 2.2 miles shorter (still long) if you spot a 4-wheel drive vehicle 2.2 miles below the Orderville Canyon trailhead. |
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08/15/2013
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08/10/2013
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07/24/2013
Guessing on date hiked. Really cool hike that got me into slot canyons. Repel after repel was awesome. If you were to park a truck(4x4) at the bottom there wouldn't be much hike out. Really fun trip. |
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07/07/2011
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06/16/2011
Estimated date of first visit. Have done this canyon twice, once came out the top of Orderville, other time went all the way down Orderville and out the narrows. Probably go out Orderville if I do it again. Very fun canyon. |
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05/01/2010
with Justin |
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06/07/2008
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03/06/0021
Lots of snow and mud |
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03/06/0021
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08/03/0019
Lance, Jen, Lance's Dad Tyler, Paul, Shara, Shara's son Alex. Took almost 8 hours! didn't leave the trailhead until 10:15 and got back to the car at 6. didn't listen to the advice I gave myself from last trip. we left the house at 7:10amit took us an hour to get to the West Zion entrance and another almost hour to get through Zion to the trailhead.then we needed to drop off the vehicles for the shuttle. both vehicles need to be high clearance vehicles, the last 2.5 miles to the orderville turn around parking area (road past the gate) is kind of rough and unable to drive in a car. if we shuttle correctly it will cut off 2.5 miles of hiking uphill on a dirt road and will make it much more enjoyable haha. we also we're pretty slow at every rappel with a couple newbies. we would benefit from at least two 120 foot ropes to set one rappel as the rest are coming down the previous rappel as each rappel is in pretty quick succession. the description says 8 rappels but I think we did 10 or 11. |
