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| no partners | | Thursday 9/7 - Drove and slept in Redding, CA
Friday 9/8 - drove close to the trailhead (last section of 2 miles not recommended for passenger cars with low clearance), parked by Clear Creek trailhead sign, hiked 2.5 miles to the trailhead, signed register and paid for summit permits, then proceeded to backpack to the Clear Creek base camp (about 3 miles from the trailhead). There is a good water source and lots of great campsites. Packed the day packs, filtered water, prepared food and went to bed around 8pm as it got chilly and dark. The mountain was towering over our tent, making it taunting with the summit in sights.
Saturday 9/9 - got up at 6am and started hiking just before 7am (late start you might say), the trail is pretty clear and easy to follow, couple snow patches you need to get through, but overall the trail is straight up on scree and sand (no bueno).
Around noon we got to the mushroom rock or red rock, rock formation that you can see from the trail going up. After that the trail get lost for a bit, so you pretty much have to boulder over the rock pile up and up, then the trail emerges. Once you get to the summit plateau, you can see the summit clearly in front of you. Its a giant rock pile that you scramble up. You see glaciers on both sides. The rock pile is little sketchy to get to and as the clouds were coming in and it got windy and really cold, we did not spent too much time on the top. Took couple pics and proceeded back to the bottom of the summit rocks, ate lunch and started our trek back. It was long time sliding and skying down in sand and getting over rocks. Got back to campsite at 7pm and then started our slog to the car. Got back to Redding at 1am  |
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