Distance
11.6 km to summit
29.2 km total
Elevation
1,384 m start
2,503 m max
Vertical
2,618 m gain
Time
7 hr 18 min to summit
15 hr 20 min total
Porcupine Loop to Midnight Peak, with two adjacent peaks added (Baldy West & South). The added difficulty and duration to the trip is why we did the loop clockwise, so we could start with the difficult scrambling required on Baldy’s west ridge. No water on route and exposed to the sun along the ridge for the vast majority of the day. The heat got to us by the time we reached Tiara Peak.
Route name
loop
Obstacles
no water source, rockfall/loose rock, weather
Key gear
helmet
ken_hercules
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