Griffith Peak

"This is the second week in a row we got turned back on Griffith Peak. Once you get off of the Cathedral Rock Trail, the snow is still way too dry and powdery. We got much farther than last week, but still had to turn back. It's a good thing we did - once we got home, the weather turned really bad. At least we still bagged Cathedral Rock on the way back." — Kevin • Feb 13, 2021

"Our goal today was to do a snow climb up Mazie Canyon to Griffith Peak. The Cathedral Rock Trail that we started on was beat down pretty good, but once we left that to start up Mazie Canyon, there were no more tracks and the snow was not quite consolidated yet. We pushed on very slowly for a while, postholing along and breaking trail. We didn't get too far before I was potholing tits-deep; that's when I decided to call it. As a consolation, we descended back to the Cathedral Rock Trail and made our way to the top of CR instead. We'll give the snow a week to consolidate, then try again. " — Kevin • Feb 6, 2021

"Went up to Griffith Peak with the intention of doing Charlie too .... however the smoke from the CA summer wildfires was so intense that I turned around about half way through the meadows. From the top of Griffith you could not see a thing. " — DudeAlmighty • Sep 7, 2020

"I have an ambitious (heh) plan for hiking and backpacking coming up, so I need to get back in shape. Well, I'm in *a* shape... round and fluffy. But I finished my Ph.D., so that's worth it! However, the mountains are calling, and I want to answer the call. So - first Griffith Peak of the season for me. Reasonable time, and I'll get better with practice again. We actually got rained on a bit on the way down!" — psychikingjes • Aug 18, 2020

"played hooky during a conference in Vegas :) a long day of 30 km and 1850 m of gain... with lots of hiking (18 km) and decent gain (750 m) above 3250 m. Weather was warmer than forecast by ~ 10 oC, had I known would have brought more fluids. The hike is nice, views are great from the summit as the Spring Mountains are surrounded by desert on all sides. " — apfelstrudel • Nov 7, 2019

"Happy August! 8.1.19....Griffith Peak #21 on dead legs (after yesterday’s Griffith summit) but somehow I was floating along anyway and achieved grand PR’s. 9.7 miles, 3,800’ gain in 2:48hr (round trip PR, 1st sub 3hr) Other PR’s~lot to Griffith saddle in 1:35hr, lot to summit in 1:52hr, Griffith Saddle to lot in :46min. By the end my legs went dead but I managed to keep them turning. With a 10am start it was hot! I traveled light with only one bottle. I ended up drinking my stash from yesterday too. This is a 2 bottle peak. Meh." — paula.raimondi • Aug 1, 2019

"7.31.19....Griffith Peak #20, 9.7 miles, 3,800’ gain, 3:36hr recovery trek/water stash w/Karla. I got to steal away girl time with my buddy Karla for a Mtn Summit. We got caught up on life and had great chit-chat about this and that and this and that. I believe all problems can be solved on a mountain....The sky rumbled and the clouds hugged the canyon walls to add to the drama. This mountain gives so much to me. It’s always different....The flowers were amazing. Thanks for letting me tag along. I stashed my final bottle of water on the mountain. Only thing left for me to do is motivate myself for the multi peak I’m planning and just get it done." — paula.raimondi • Jul 31, 2019

"My first summit (probably of several?) of Griffith this season. Still plenty of snow on the South Loop trail - I'm glad I had my yaktrax with me, and one of these days I need to invest in microspikes instead for more grippiness. We left the trail several times and just cut straight up switchbacks as there was so much snow covering the trail, it was more effective. Same on the way down. Felt pretty good for only my second hike at elevation this season! Great time with great hiking friends. :) " — psychikingjes • Jun 29, 2019

"There was still a decent amount of snow covering some of the switchbacks up high, so we had to veer off-trail a few times on the way up. The weather was very pleasant. Joel and I decided to see if we could find some good snow to glissade down, which we did! Ran into a few friends on the descent & was back to the car nice & early!" — Kevin • Jun 29, 2019

"Snow climb of Griffith Peak via Mazie Canyon. It has been so hot, we didn't know how much snow we would have. We were lucky, as the snow level in this drainage was still pretty low. I anticipate maybe only 1-2 weeks left of decent snow, at the most. " — Kevin • Jun 15, 2019