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| Hiking | 15.33 Miles |
5,354 AEG |
| | Hiking | 15.33 Miles | 9 Hrs 23 Mns | | 1.83 mph |
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| no partners | | Originally my daughter, Granddog Buddy and two others were to hike Mt Harvard, however I took a wrong trail at an unmarked junction and summited Mt Columbia. I am finding trails are either poorly marked or no signage at all. Perhaps compared to Arizona there is water everywhere and few if any lost hikers die from exposure during their Summer months.
Columbia is a DNR (Do Not Repeat) until the new trail is opened to the public. I scratched, slid and pulled myself up a slippery Couloir. Really tough going, and then I had to return the same way. If I had a rope and harness I would have descended using those. I was so slippery, it was safer glassading down when ever possible.
Wanting to reconnect with my daughter and the others I headed up the correct Harvard trail, after meeting three other hikers that had mistaken the Columbia trail for Harvard too. I ended hiking up with a guy named Rick, who as it turns out his daughter was in my daughter’s second grade class last school year. So after the 15 minute parent teacher meeting we headed back down to the car.
Unlike Elbert and Huron there was plenty of water for Buddy to wade, cool off and drink on the Harvard segment. Columbia had no water above the tree line. |
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