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Finnegan's Wake - grabbing the gold at the end of the Sawatch 13ers
Sa-Watch me you Sawatch Peaks as I set foot upon the last two of the I think 114 Sawatch 13ers.
Gold Dust Peak - Saturday August 30, 2014
10.4 miles
4000 feet
I-70 and Eagle go south on Capital out of town to about 7th, left on Brush Creek Road to East Brush Creek Road (415) to Fulford Caves. The road is signed.
The trail starts at the parking and you want to take Lake Charles Trail which goes left after about a hundred yards. It is signed. You will follow the trail to an open area and leave the trail before you get to Lake Charles. I headed towards Negro Basin which shows up on the quad map. I have a gpx if you want one send me a pm. It was straightforward to me, just don't leave the trail too soon.
All pictures taken with my GPS camera so they are not so very good.
Gold Dust Peak (it is kinda yellow like a smiley face )
I went up to the left of the yellow bump in the center of the picture.
Yellow rocks
A ridge.
A look back down the yellow brick road, uh route.
The gully I went up, Class 2.
The ridge to the summit.
The summit.
The road to Finnegan is back down 415 to 418 and take that right turn to the Town of Fulford. There are signs.
Warning: Do not take 419. There is a sign there as you are driving in, it goes towards the town of Fulford and New York Mountain. 419 is a fairly serious 4WD road that has big rocks , deep creek crossings and is narrow, one lane most of the way. It is very slow. I took that road on the way out. My wife was going to disown me after that.
Finnegan Peak - Sunday August 31, 2014
and New York Mountain 12,550
9.2 miles
4300 feet
A fuzzy morning picture.
Summit of New York Mountain.
This is looking down the top of the descent gully.
A look up at the Class 3+ section. The dog alerted me, but very softly and then ran down the rock so it may be Class 4 but probably slightly less. there is one Class 3 section higher up in the gully too.
A dark picture of the rock and talus going up Finnegan. I went to the left of the snow I believe.
New York Lake where you cross at the lower end. Easy rock crossing.
A look down.
I went a bit farther left of where Furthermore went to the ridge. I would stay with his route there because you can save yourself some extracurricular Class 3 and 4 activity.
There is some route finding necessary to stay at Class 3. There are some good cairns and some bad cairns. I think I hit a few Class 4 spots but they were not exposed.
"My nose is pointing to where you should go"
It rained a while, then snowed for 3 or 4 hours, stopped, started to hail, the sun came out for a minute, still hailing, then stopped and we had about 30 minutes of sun for the entire trek.
The summit.
Gold Dust.
Along with dead camera batteries my GPS died too so I have added a map and graph of the return route. I went around the lake a short distance on the way back to see if you could avoid the gully I came down. You can. I is steep grass a bit of rock and then grass again to the New York Mountain ridge. The problem is that you hit the ridge at a somewhat nasty spot which means you have to drop down the rocks toward the New York Lake trail, lose some elevation and find the trail The trail looks like hardly anyone, if anybody at all uses it past New York Mountain. Once back up and below the mountain it is a cairn/post fest.
My GPS Tracks on Google Maps (made from a .GPX file upload):
Congrats on your accomplishment! New York Mountain has been on my to do list for a long time! I've tried it unsuccessfully from Edwards, but sooner or later I'm gonna get it! That's a great basin to explore!
Congrats on finishing the Sawatch 13ers - that's a lot of research, planning, driving, early mornings and summits!
Ms. BJ is looking well. I always enjoy seeing her.
Thanks for all the TR's along the way - very useful info.
Cheers!
These peaks are a lot easier to climb than Finnegans Wake is to read.
Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen-
core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy
isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor
had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse
to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper
all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to
tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a
kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in
vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a
peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory
end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface.
here are the lyrics me lads and lassies 9/10/2014 12:30am
lyrics from the 1850's and more recently by the Dubliners and Clancy Bros. I have included the Key and chords too
Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street,
A gentle Irishman mighty odd
He had a brogue both rich and sweet,
An' to rise in the world he carried a hod
You see he'd a sort of a tipplers way
but for the love for the liquor poor Tim was born
To help him on his way each day,
he'd a drop of the craythur every morn
Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner (doesn't mean a thing)
round the flure yer trotters shake
Bend an ear to the truth they tell ye,
we had lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake
One morning Tim got rather full,
his head felt heavy which made him shake
Fell from a ladder and he broke his skull, and
they carried him home his corpse to wake
Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet,
and laid him out upon the bed
A bottle of whiskey at his feet
and a barrel of porter at his head
His friends assembled at the wake,
and Widow Finnegan called for lunch
First she brought in tay and cake,
then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch
Biddy O'Brien began to cry,
”Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see,
Tim, auvreem! O, why did you die?”,
”Will ye hould your gob?” said Paddy McGee
Then Maggie O'Connor took up the cry,
”O Biddy” says she ”you're wrong, I'm sure”
Biddy gave her a belt in the gob
and sent her sprawling on the floor
Then the war did soon engage,
t'was woman to woman and man to man
Shillelagh law was all the rage
and a row and a ruction soon began
Mickey Maloney ducked his head
when a bucket of whiskey flew at him
It missed, and falling on the bed,
the liquor scattered over Tim
Now the spirits new life gave the corpse, my joy!
Tim jumped like a Trojan from the bed
Cryin will ye walup each girl and boy,
t'underin' Jaysus, do ye think I'm dead?”
KEY C
verse:
C Am F G7-C
chorus:
C Am F C-G7-C
okay you two, enjoy
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