Eagle Peak Hike June 5, 2005
Posted by admin in : Outdoors/Travel , trackbackWell I broke this season’s hiking cherry with a nice hike to Eagle Peak:
It’s hard to see the exact trail from this topo map, but basically I follow Back Creek Trail all the way up the canyon to the top, cut west across this hairy hogback ridge trial to Eagle peak, from Eagle Peak to Twin Peaks, then back down the switchbacks to Back Creek trail and out.
About a 4-5 hour hike, 2000′ elevation gain. 84 degrees with a nice cooling breeze and plenty of shade, so the only real difficulty was the sheer effort of lugging my 200 lb. Frame up the hill and then keeping it from sliding down the gravelly trail on the downhill sections.
I loved the hogback — it was this ridge between two peaks, nothing but scrappy chapparell on either side, and 2000′ drops either way, and the trail was just a few feet wide. Thrilling. I definitely had feelings of vertigo there and at the peaks.
With a lite day pack and mellow temps, it was not too terribly hard. I mean there were many sections of pure misery, and it was a little jungly in parts. But I came home not feeling like a train wreck.
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