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1 summit • 14.2 mi • 2,206 ft gain • 5 hr 7 min
1 summit • 4.7 mi • 758 ft gain • 1 hr 46 min
1 summit • 8.8 mi • 3,044 ft gain • 5 hr 18 min
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"Left Sunrise Point at 6:30 AM with the plan of doing the trailed portion of this loop before many folks were on the trail, then returning via the ridge line. Saw nobody on the trail until I got to Dege Peak. Possibly some light Class 3 on the route I took to Marcus Peak and descending from Marcus to the south, but overall Class 2. Saw quite the gamut of ungulates: deer, mountain goats, and bull elk (the latter bugling and locking antlers in the meadows). Any time my GPS track descends from the ridgeline, I was following a game trail. It was a spectacular, blue bird day, but started brisk (36* when I left Sunrise Point). Met a very nice man from Ohio named Ricardo on the summit of Dege. I wish he wasn't traveling so extensively during the pandemic, but I wish him luck on his tour of the West. Note: Peakery currently lists both "The Palisades" and "Palisades Peak" for some reason." — TynanRammGranberg • Aug 30, 2020
"Traversed the southwest slope up, past the treeline, to where a talus field begins. Left my poles there. Then up on the western edge. The serrated knife edge keeps on going, and the actual peak is much farther away than it first seemed. It went up and down probably three times after the false summit, but I didn't have to stray very far from the ridge.
Last year, I had tried to scramble this one after doing Dege, Emma and Antler, but I approached from the southeast. That's definitely the wrong way to go.
This is one of the two most difficult peaks on the Sourdough Ridge, the other one being Mount Fremont East-1 (the one farther away from the trail to the Mount Fremont lookout)." — mathiasricken • Aug 24, 2019