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| bdivall | American Fork Twin Peaks  Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2010 | |
| Started from Snowbird parking lot (Entry 2) on 8/14/10 at 6:30AM. Hiked Dick Bass Highway and the Gad Valley Trail past Mid-Gad Restaurant. Crossed west over a talus slope to the Gad Valley/Red Top Ridge. Ascended the Gad Valley/Red Top Ridge. Summited American Fork Twin Peaks (West Twin) at 11:22AM. Left for American Fork Twin Peaks (East Twin) at Noon. Summited American Fork East Twin at about 12:15PM. The entire day was clear & pleasant. Began descent from American Fork East Twin at about 12:20PM. Descended the east ridge of American Fork East twin. Descended down a chute of scree before reaching the ridge that goes to Hidden Peak. Climbed the Cat trail to the Tram at Hidden Peak. Road the Tram to the Snowbird parking lot. Arrived at Snowbird parking lot (Entry 2) at 2:22PM. | ||
| Posted May 22, 2011 8:41 pm | ||
| americanswiss | Twins | |
| Up White Pine, then off-trail up Eastern slopes to ridge. Occasional scramble on Red Baldy ridge. Then over Red Top to the Twins. Descended the Twins North Face in trail runners. Yikes! | |
| Posted Feb 24, 2011 3:20 am | ||
| Mooner | Up I Go | |
| 09/13/10 part of Bullion Divide met with Chicagotransplant | |
| Posted Oct 29, 2010 4:16 am | ||
| chicagotransplant | Tour de Snowbird Date Climbed: Sep 13, 2010 | |
| Highlight of a loop with Baldy, Sugarloaf and Hidden. Met up with Mooner on the summit of Baldy and we went up the Northeast Ridge to the summit of American Forks Twin Peaks. He continued on the ridge, while I went down via Gad Valley back to the village and my car. | |
| Posted Sep 15, 2010 6:47 pm | ||
| punchline | Gad Valley Route Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2010 | |
| Climbed AF Twins via Snowbird resort - "Dick Bass Highway" to Gad Valley to Gad II and up ridge to Red Top and then over. Beautiful clear day - could see SLC valley as well as Timp and Nebo to the south. Note: Road construction is currently happening on Gad Valley Road around the Mid-Gad Restaurant. They were pretty insistent that no one go up that part of the 4wd road due to the large backhoes, etc. that may be moving up and down the road. Possibly a better option, until work is completed, would be to go to the end of the "Dick Bass Highway" and bushwack up the basin in front of you veering to the right where you could pick up the Gad II trail and completely avoid the Gad Valley Road ... just a thought ... | |
| Posted Sep 13, 2010 2:45 pm | ||
| photo61guy | Gad Valley Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2010 | |
| East and West Twin and Red Top...knee surgery from 7 months prior has bothering me along with construction noises at the sky resort made for a rather lackluster day. Better than being at work though. | ||
| Posted Sep 13, 2010 11:55 am | ||
| skiwall | Gad to Peruvian Date Climbed: Aug 22, 2010 | |
| Awesome hike- parked at Snowbird center, up Gad Valley to Gad 2 to Red Top, to the Twins, then along the ridge back to HDP and down Peruvian Gulch. Beautiful weather, awesome hike. Would have continued to Baldy, but we went down to hit up Oktoberfest. | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2010 12:01 pm | ||
| utclimber | Sugarloaf to White Baldy | |
| I hiked over AF Twins on a ridge hike from Sugarloaf going to White Baldy in 2004. | ||
| Posted Jun 27, 2010 11:37 pm | ||
| Pfeiffer75 | Climbed twice Date Climbed: Oct 10, 2008 | |
| Climbed via the north ridge both times. Cheated and came down the tram the first time. Second ascent was part of the Bullion divide with the WMC | |
| Posted May 9, 2010 10:46 pm | ||
| kteichert | From Mineral basin Date Climbed: Nov 7, 2009 | |
| Parked at 7900' up the MIneral Basin road, where it got so rough, I didn't wanna take my truck any further. Did American Fork East, West and South, and Haystack. Descended the northeast face of American Fork East down into Mineral Basin. Was snow covered and my top speed was 25.6 mph according to my GPS. Was quite a rush. Total round trip was 9.96 miles and I completed it in 4 hours 3 mins. | |
| Posted Nov 7, 2009 6:02 pm | ||
| shphilby | A little longer then expected Date Climbed: Jul 26, 2009 | |
| Took the tram up and did part of the Bullion Divide ridge traverse and hikes down white pine. Turned out to be 10 miles. The climb over to red baldly was interesting. | |
| Posted Sep 5, 2009 5:14 pm | ||
| KirtDavis | Turned into a 10 mile hike Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2009 | |
| Rode the tram up to Hidden Peak, went across the knife edge, then kept going after the twin peaks. Down via White Pine Lake, and back up to the lodge by hitchhiking. | |
| Posted Aug 26, 2009 11:02 pm | ||
| bradb | Gad Valley Route Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2009 | |
| Climbed via Gad Valley trail to Red Top Ridge, then continued on to Hidden, Mount Baldy, and Sugarloaf peaks. Descended via Peruvian Gulch trail. Observed mountain goats, moose and pikas. | ||
| Posted Aug 16, 2009 10:09 am | ||
| Matthew Van Horn | A nice pair Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2012 | |
| 06/21/2012 Run up Gad Valley from Snowbird, also the Bastard 07/29/2009 from Albion Basin, night hike 09/14/2007 from Albion Basin, hit both peaks 08/05/2006 traverse from Devil's Castle, Sugarloaf, Baldy, and continued the Bullion Divide to White Baldy. | |
| Posted Jul 30, 2009 1:59 am | ||
| Stansbury | AF Twin Peaks Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2009 | |
| Nice to do this one. A beautiful day but rain to the west made me go ahead and visit all three quickly and then go back down. Saw moose and deer, too. | |
| Posted Jul 24, 2009 1:51 am | ||
| LonePeakFreak | From Hidden Peak Date Climbed: Jun 27, 2009 | |
| Came up from the Alta parking lot and Hidden Peak, then over to Red Top and White Pine TH. Thumbed a ride back up the road to my car. | |
| Posted Jul 2, 2009 3:27 pm | ||
| NoSubas | Skied | |
| Skied off Mario's then to Bookends | |
| Posted Dec 22, 2008 4:17 am | ||
| Kadee | Fun Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 26, 2008 | |
| I really enjoyed this hike. I made the hike quite easy by riding the tram to Hidden Peak, but I had a ton of fun on the ridge. I did this one by myself. I met SP member, climbingchic, near the summit. It was a beautiful day and I had a blast. | |
| Posted Dec 16, 2008 11:59 am | ||
| byates | Mutiple routes and climbs | |
| A dozen or so times, usually in passing to other peaks. | |
| Posted Dec 2, 2008 11:34 am | ||
| pbogen | White Pine Canyon Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2008 | |
| Left trail in White Pine Canyon and headed up northwest ridge of Red Top Mountain then easy traverse to the Twins. The views from AF Twin Peaks and Red Top are some of the finest in the Wasatch. A very enjoyable and worthwhile hike. | |
| Posted Sep 11, 2008 2:13 pm | ||
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