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04-27-2021, 10:55 PM #3451Hungover & Homeless
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Alta is open for Uphill!
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04-30-2021, 09:54 AM #3452
Prob the wrong thread but any recommendations for fun shortish to day summit hikes around the area? + pts for lack of snow, some class 3/4 scrambling and isolation. I'm near Murray. TYTY
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04-30-2021, 10:04 AM #3453
lack of snow + scrambling is gonna be hard to find, most of the good scrambles have snow on them
there's a short section of 3rd class on top of little black top, which is one of my favorite foothill hikes. it's 98% snow free and good to go. it does get hot during the day, but once you pass the avenues twins, you'll be by yourself pretty much the whole way
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04-30-2021, 10:05 AM #3454
south ridge of superior is a major classic. if you time it right you can ski down the south face (tricky) or suicide (much easier)
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04-30-2021, 10:06 AM #3455
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04-30-2021, 10:12 AM #3456
Definitely 5th class and not 3/4 scrambling, though.
Shaaarp needs to wait a bit, it's just too early for most of the peaks that offer what he's looking for. Maybe Deseret or Pilot, I'm not sure what the West Desert snow situation looks like. Once things melt there's lots of options. Raymond, Olympus North Summit, Pfeifferhorn, Broads Fork Twins (either from Broads Fork or Tanners), Superior and MC from the east ridge, Devils Castle, Nebo, just to name a few.Last edited by Dantheman; 04-30-2021 at 10:54 AM.
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04-30-2021, 10:42 AM #3457Registered User
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Grandeur Peak via the Dragon's Tail could be a good route. Definitely solitary on the route, although of course the highway is below you. It has a pretty good chunk of fun class 3/4 (20-40 mins?). 2-5 hours.
Main Olympus is snow free and easy class 3 but not remote. 2-5 hours.
The very short ridge up to Red Butte through the Living Room is very short and mostly class 2 but has a fun class 3 section. Also not remote. 1-2 hours.
95% sure that much of the South Ridge is still snow-covered.
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04-30-2021, 11:24 AM #3458
Thanks for the ideas yall, I appreciate it!
In the meantime I should probably fix my bike, which managed to get two flats on my very first ride in Utah. Gotta learn what to watch out for in new locales!
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04-30-2021, 11:38 AM #3459
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04-30-2021, 11:55 AM #3460
Up behind City Creek canyon gets remote real fast. Leave the masses behind after a mile and it’s a nice lonely remote-ish walk to black mountain, lookout and grand view. When I lived in slc I put a ton of training miles back there. I bet you’ll see tons of wildlife back there this time of year.
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04-30-2021, 12:00 PM #3461User
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04-30-2021, 12:03 PM #3462
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04-30-2021, 12:03 PM #3463
Mountain Project rates it as 5.easy: https://www.mountainproject.com/rout...07/south-ridge
Sure, you definitely don't need climbing shoes or a rope (though, chacos, wow, props), but it's airy AF most of the way, IMVHO. Someone asking for "hikes" that include some 3/4 should be well-warned about what the South Ridge entails because if they're not real comfortable with exposure things could go sideways in a hurry. If you were to get freaked out at one of the cruxier sections and be unable to move up or down it's going to be a real bad day.
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04-30-2021, 12:10 PM #3464
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04-30-2021, 12:17 PM #3465User
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04-30-2021, 12:52 PM #3466
This.
Someone rolled off that ridge last summer and got pretty mangled IIRC. It's the cool lap for all the fast bros who can bang it out in 1 hour round trip but it can get real pretty fucking fast if you're not comfortable with exposure or you grab the wrong piece of choss.
I think you can make it 5.easy if you're dialed but it's easy to tunnel vision at the cruxes and fail to notice the walk arounds. Last time I was up there it was a conga line of people and at least half of them were in over their heads and gripped senseless. 5 hours and a gallon of tears seemed to be the standard price to pay for the summit. Two ladies in particular were having a horrendous time on one of the exposed sections of traverse after having been abandoned by their super cool man friends who were chasing Strava glory. I chatted them up and loosely coached them through the section that was intimidating them. They floated the actual crux (what I call the crux, a boulder problem fairly high up on the ridge) and it's obvious they were solid climbers, just not psyched to go chossaneering over a big hole.
Olympus is drying fast. All the scrambling in the world can be done on that peak well before Sup is worth a visit."Your wife being mad is temporary, but pow turns do not get unmade" - mallwalker the wise
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04-30-2021, 04:35 PM #3467Registered User
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I also would put forward that the South Ridge is much closer to "5.easy" when you've done it before and know the route + hard parts, or have someone guiding you up. If I had done it on my own on my first time I would have been spooked for sure. Personally, too, any unroped 5 is definitionally spooky to me.
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04-30-2021, 09:14 PM #3468
So, obviously I don’t mean to encourage anyone to haphazardly go up the south ridge. But there are a million+ people in the valley, someone dies every year it seems falling off lisa falls... SAR takes folks out of lake blanche trail. Doesn’t change the rating. Class 4 is “Simple climbing, often with exposure. A rope is often used. A fall on Class 4 rock could be fatal”, that’s the south ridge right? Sustained 4th class with maybe one or two moments of avoidable 5.easy. Obviously don’t get in over your head! sfotex rescues enough people and I don’t wanna add any to the list. But if you’re asking about 4th class routes...?
Anyway shaaarp: don’t you fuckin DARE make me look like an asshole for suggesting it
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04-30-2021, 09:35 PM #3469Registered User
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Props for dragging R2-D2 up the ridge with you Mall Walker. Obv rated for robots.
This is not the route you’re looking for.
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04-30-2021, 10:23 PM #3470
^^ very well put, I agree with this assessment 100%. but, to shaaaaaaaaaaaarp's original question, south ridge might (or might not) be dry. most ridge scrambles/4th class hikes aren't yet. if anything scrambly is dry, it's likely to be s. ridge.
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04-30-2021, 10:42 PM #3471
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05-01-2021, 07:28 AM #3472
Awesome pictures and ideas! Thanks for the varying opinions...I appreciate all input.
All I've really done "climbing" wise is SW Couloir of Middle Teton and West Ridge of Kit Carson so not a lot of experience. Steepish but largely scrambable solid rocks: yes! Steep and slippery/wet rocks or slanted snowfields: pass. Snow and rope travel is on the list once it feels a little easier to learn with others but not there yet.
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05-01-2021, 01:34 PM #3473
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05-02-2021, 07:00 AM #3474
There is a new northern wasatch lift served ski are (managed by Bob Wheaton) coming to terrain near you. Complete with heated high-speed quads and bubbles. Does UT. now have its own version of the Yellowstone club? I wonder who will be our Scot Schmidt
https://www.saminfo.com/headline-new...7QfbQOrE9wYT5c.
Not sure exactly where this is, but it sounds like it will be close to either Thurston, or Monte CristoLast edited by schindlerpiste; 05-02-2021 at 07:29 AM.
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05-02-2021, 07:15 AM #3475
More kuntz!
Just what we need in utardia.
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