Stuck in the Mud, with the cows. On the way to Silverton we headed for a campsite in eastern NV, we took the wrong road. We arrived the night before and waited for daylight to figure a way out.
We have a plan, using a car jack, bit of wood, sticks and stones we Jacked the car up and escaped.
View of a mountain on while training on the Hardrock 100 trail
Silverton Jamboree Music Festival
Training run 3, Our plan was to run the Hardrock course from Bear Creek, we got to Bear Creek but couldn't cross the creek safely (high fast moving water) So this was plan B hike up to Kendall Mountain 13,200ft
Kendall Mountain
Fred and Kendall Mountain
Views on the Kendall Mountain climb
Craig as we pass the Timberline, almost 12,000ft
Looking back at the trail. We had some much fun in the snow we went the wrong way, trail we should have taken is top right. We just kept in the opposite direction
More views from the trail
Fred heading into a snow field
Fred in the snow field with is ultra light weight Ice axe
Fred on top of the world, well not quite, but getting there
Kendall Mountain sure looks different up here, (it wasn't Kendall mountain) Off I go straight up to the saddle
View from other side of the Saddle
Rocks
Crazy route I took to get there, snow climbing, scree scrambling and a little rock climbing
But what a view, from the Saddle
Heading back towards Kendall Mountain
Fred in the snow again
Me with my stick and tent stake
Fred coming down, again we took a slight detour, looking for a shortcut to Kendall and ended up at wrong peak again. Next time we'll make it up to Kendall Mountain
Sun setting behind Kendall Mountain
2008 Hardrock Course map
View to peak from out campsite
Home for the night above Molas Pass
Another view from campsite
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Fred happy to be camping
Photo doesn't really show, but the moon was so bright I work up thinking it was morning.
I did a short morning climb to above 12,000ft, here the view
Look back down to camp 400ft below
More views from up high, there were some really big bear prints in the snow
Sun rising
This is a view of the top, I decided to head down for breakfast
Local Trail runner, Marmot checking out the storm
Grey skies rolling in, on hike up to Kendall Mountain, 5 min later I'm running back down to avoid thunder, lightning and hail
View of snow and blue sky on climb up to Arrastra Creek to Little Giant Mountain
another beautiful day in the mountains
Clouds building up over distance peaks
Old mine on the way to Little Giant Peak
Old mine building
Clouds building more in the distance
Clear sky over the peak, all looks great as long as i don't look back
Nice mountain lake from snow melt
Ah Oh, that looking a little close
Looks nice there, but thunder clouds now are in every other direction, time to get down
It don't look so good, I don't want to be at 12,500ft any more
6 miles, 1 hour later, after running from thunder, lighning, thought hail and rain it doens't look so bad in town.
More views of town
Blair St
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Silverton to Durango Steam Train
