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PT 13,832 - 13,832 feet
PT 13,811 - 13,811 feet |
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| Posted By: | scotthsu | |
| Post Date: | 08/30/2009 | |
| Date Climbed: | 08/29/2009 | |
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Itinerary: Williams Creek TH (9160`) to PT 13832 to PT 13811 back to TH
Party: scotthsu (Scott) and Nice Axe (Amy) Stats: ~13.8 miles RT, ~5700‘, 8 hours car-to-car Difficulty: mostly class 1 with a little bit of class 2 here and there This was day 2 of our brief San Juan sojourn. After a sizable day doing Half and "Quarter" Peaks the day before, the stats for this hike didn‘t really sink in until 5:30am the morning of, when I looked at the route description again readying for the hike. For some reason, I thought it was closer to 12 miles RT and 5100`, which is bad enough already! Well, here we were, and we were gonna go for it! We hit the trail at 6:10am, bright enough to see w/o headlamps, and followed the good Williams Creek TH as it climbed and climbed and climbed and climbed some more. It was an enchanting place that had it all: forest, creeks, talus fields, beaver dams, sub-alpine meadows. View of Half and "Quarter" Peaks from a meadow at 10380`: 
Then it was a relentless steady climb all the way to 11500`, including this bit of steep nastiness: 
At ~12100` we were treated to nice views of our objectives. PT 13832 peeking out: 
PT 13811: 
From the saddle at ~12100`, Roach‘s description says to follow the "continuing road" to cross the east fork of Bent Creek. We didn‘t see any signs of a "continuing" road either coming or going, so we just walked down toward the (dry) creek through a widely spaced forest. Looking down the east fork of Bent Creek drainage: 
After crossing the creek-bed, we headed up a steep slope with some loose rocks and saw this: 
We kept climbing steep grass and then stopped for some much-needed calories. It was around 9:15am, and we had already hiked ~5 miles and climbed ~3700` by this point! More steep grass, heading toward PT 13632 (which we eventually skirted to the south): 
A view toward PT 13811 with a herd of elk in the lower-right: 
Once we could see PT 13832 from just south of PT 13632, it was a bit disheartening to see how much farther and higher PT 13832 appeared. We kept at it and made it to the summit around 10:20am, 4 hours and 10 minutes after starting out. View toward PT 13811: 
View to Sunshine (14001`) and Redcloud (14034`): 
Amy walking back toward the 13460` saddle: 
We skirted PT 13632 again to the south and descended to the ~13240` saddle below PT 13811. From there, it was a steady but easy hike to the summit of PT 13811, which we reached around 11:20am. Gratuitous summit shot: 
I heart San Juans: 
We took another snack break on the summit for about 15 minutes and then headed back toward the 13240` saddle. From there, we headed straight down steep grassy slopes and picked up the Williams Creek trail around 12480`. 
It was a looooong hike back, but not without some soulful views along the way: 
We made it back to the car at 2:10pm for an 8 hour RT. It was a great 2 days in the Lake City area where we tallied up just under 25 miles of hiking/scrambling and ~10900‘ of elevation gain. Thumbnails for uploaded photos: 
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in one of the registers I took the time to flip through, I think 13811.
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