Humboldt saddle to north Colony lakes

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Humboldt saddle to north Colony lakes

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Looking for beta on a few things:
access to the south colony TH this year-anyone been up to see how the road is-will my highlander be enough?
More importantly-considering a route that ascends the standard south colony lakes approach-summits Humboldt and then descends from the saddle into the north colony basin-has anyone got any intel on what that involves from a technical standpoint?
We would then exit through the north colony trail to rainbow trail back to the South Colony TH.
Water sources? Plentiful or something to consider given how dry we are this year?

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Re: Humboldt saddle to north Colony lakes

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thevoyeur wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2026 11:28 am More importantly-considering a route that ascends the standard south colony lakes approach-summits Humboldt and then descends from the saddle into the north colony basin-has anyone got any intel on what that involves from a technical standpoint?
Some info in this thread and a subsequent thread mentioned in there on this part.

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Re: Humboldt saddle to north Colony lakes

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And here are road conditions:
https://www.14ers.com/php14ers/threport ... cnum=11513
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Re: Humboldt saddle to north Colony lakes

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You guys rock, and I commit to doing more search strings before posting a new thread in the future!
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