Texas Creek Road/Trailhead

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Texas Creek Road/Trailhead

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This is in the Sawatch in the Taylor Park Reservoir area. How does the road go, is it Rav4able with skill? Roach's 13ers (it can be used to access the Apostles from the south) says the last 2½ miles are 4wd, but I don't see a lot of recent information about it, and searching on "Texas" gets a lot of hits I don't want.
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Last time I was up there it was pretty tame up to around 9800 then the rockiness intensifies quite a bit. Probably within a mile and half of the TH is where 4x4 and some clearance is needed. It has been a year or so since I was last up there though.
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TravelingMatt wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 6:54 pm Roach's 13ers (it can be used to access the Apostles from the south)
Interesting you mention this. I was looking/wondering about the S ridge of W Apostle from this approach. I don't have Roachs' book with me, but does it mention that?
I've also heard that Magdalen goes well from this trailhead. I think hikerguy mentioned it on here before.
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d_baker wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 7:36 pm Interesting you mention this. I was looking/wondering about the S ridge of W Apostle from this approach. I don't have Roachs' book with me, but does it mention that?
Yes, and he claims it is easier than the standard route up the northeast ridge, although still Class 3.

I was in fact looking to do Magdalene and Pear from this TH. Wouldn't require the reclimb that starting at Cottonwood pass does, would be a bit shorter too if I could get all the way to the end. My car is no go up to Clohesy Lake.
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I was up there a few weeks ago and hit Magdalene. As Graham mentioned the last few miles are the difficulty of the road. There are 2 or 3 spots with some larger rocks. Without taking a shovel and doing some road work I don't think a Rav 4 would make it. I am very interest in the route for Ice Mtn up Waterloo Gulch. On the old sign for the Waterloo Gulch trail someone wrote with a sharpie "Ice Mtn underrated climb".

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I hiked Magdalene from there in Sept 2020. Before that, in June 2020, I tried in my AWD Santa Fe with AT tires and it was a no go. I went back with my 4WD truck and was able to make it no problem. IMO, this trailhead requires a truck, jeep or 4-runner type vehicle. I'm sure someone as gotten their Subaru there before, but there are some areas that could tear up an AWD vehicle even though it's a flat road for the most part.
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nickm wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 7:54 pm On the old sign for the Waterloo Gulch trail someone wrote with a sharpie "Ice Mtn underrated climb".
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That is the one! Any beta on the route?
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This matters because I'd prefer to make a single trip to bag these two peaks. With the added distance from road walking I'd pack in and do an overnight though. At which point it would be less driving and hiking to park at Rockdale and pack into Clohesy Lake.

Thanks for talking me out of it :wink:
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