Tourist Creek Route on Gannett Peak

[Exflatlander]

Has anyone done this route on Gannett Peak? The approach is not easy but avoids much of the glacier travel. I have plenty of experience on class 4 terrain but have no technical climbing skills. I am kind of curious to know how sustained the class 4 section since I will be solo. The only gear I have is crampons and an ice axe. There is a good chance I might wait until next year to try this route.

[climbnowworklater]

I did. AWESOME route! Imho, this will be the standard route in the future. My buddy and I did it in 2 days, 1 night. Probably the best mountaineering experience I have had. All we brought was pons/axe as well. Huge workout though. I think it was 44 miles in 2 days. Feel free to contact me to discuss further but I felt the class 4 section was pretty tame. (although, I"m confident leading up to mid class 5) Also, here is my TR from our trip:
https://www.14ers.com/php14ers/triprepo ... trip=18207

[pbakwin]

I've done Tourist Creek and also Wells Creek. Previous poster's TR pretty much covers it, especially about the rock hopping! Actually, I can't imagine schlepping much of a pack up there. Also, I am surprised that their GPS showed 44 miles RT, felt much shorter to me. I recall running back to the car after crossing back over the Green River in about 1:45, so it can't be more than 12 miles or so to that point. Anyway, I wrote a description of the route: https://www.summitpost.org/tourist-creek/536366 and a brief trip report is here: https://fastestknowntime.com/fkt/peter- ... 2009-08-01

Wells Creek is definitely harder in terms of technical climbing.

[Exflatlander]

Thanks for the beta and for the links to the trip reports. From what I read it looked like half the climbers used a rope on the last section but it sounds like that is unnecessary.

[Exflatlander]

I did. AWESOME route! Imho, this will be the standard route in the future. My buddy and I did it in 2 days, 1 night. Probably the best mountaineering experience I have had. All we brought was pons/axe as well. Huge workout though. I think it was 44 miles in 2 days. Feel free to contact me to discuss further but I felt the class 4 section was pretty tame. (although, I"m confident leading up to mid class 5) Also, here is my TR from our trip:
https://www.14ers.com/php14ers/triprepo ... trip=18207

Can you camp at Skinny Lake or is the closest spot to camp to the summit between Scott and Skinny Lakes? Is the class 4 section a few hundred feet or closer to a thousand? I have seen multiple trip reports give a wide variety of descriptions. I might try to summit on the second day and then spend a couple of additional nights to do Desolation/Flagstone if I can carry enough food. Thanks.

[climbnowworklater]

We saw two guys camped right before skinny as you head up. Probably a few small spots around there towards minor.

The class 4 section is broken up and mixed with cl 3. Maybe a few hundred feet. Moves were on solid rock and easier than the needle from travese. *Notice where you top out as that could be confusing on descent. Saw some webbing but downclimbed before that.

Go as light as possible. I think our bags weighed just over 25 lbs for this one night adventure and its a beater. Let me know how it goes.

Good luck.

[mtn_nut]

http://mountainhandbook.com/phpBB3/view ... =27&t=1418

Another trip report

[Exflatlander]

Thanks for the beta and I summitted Gannett a week ago from this padt Sunday. The crux was getting through Tourist Creek with a full pack as I overpacked (although I forgot my stove). I passed a party of four climbers who were on there way back from Gannett as a day trip. I thought the class 4 section was fairly easy and not too exposed. Crampons and an ice axe were definitely helpful. I ended up camping two nights with one at the south end of Skinny Lake and the other at lake above 11,000'.