A beautiful day for a hike! It starts in a forest, flat for a short time, over a little bridge. Then the uphill starts.
The trail builders have created stairs from flat stones at strategic locations. There are also many signs along the trail now to ensure you get to where you want to go. Here the signs tell hikers and scramblers to go right. This loop is definitely done counter clock wise. Never clock wise.
Once on the hiker and scrambler trail, you traverse the slope heading uphill on excellent trail.
Looking at the rocky top half of the mountain from the side. The trail traverses the right side through the trees up on to the shoulder. Then it goes along the top of the shoulder to the base of the rock on the right or east side. This area is called Raven's End.
Here on top of the shoulder, the trail heads up toward the rocky top half of the mountain. You can start to see the back of the rocky section where the scramble trail goes up.
Stairs take you up towards Raven's End. Once there, you see a sign telling you that continuing on is a serious scramble and should not be undertaken unless you have scrambling experience.
Looking through the top of the chimney. This was a beautiful day and a very fun scramble over great rock. It made me really excited to climb some routes on the front. Hoepfully we'll get up there this year.
Wow 11 peaks climbed this year and I'm well on track to make the 20 Peaks goal. I'm not sure what I'll do next. Waiting for Dan's ankle to heal, I really want to do some challenging scrambles with him.