Jupiter Mountain
Introduction
Below i will post some images from our trip to Chicago Basin over Labor Day weekend. I walked in from the Purgatory Trailhead, which was a lovely walk, about 18 miles in, and my son and brother took the train. They do not allow dogs on the train, therefore the walk, and I did enjoy the solitude. I did not meet anyone until the train crowds got off at Needleton.Chicago Basin offers tons of peaks to scramble on, including 3 fourteeners and a number of thirteeners, plenty of lonely camping spots and goats everywhere. My brother got nearly licked when he fell asleep in the grass outside our tent.
It is a great area to explore.
We summited during our trip: Sunlight Peak, Windom Peak, Eolus and North Eolus and Jupiter Mountain.
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Chicago Basin Trip Planning GuideOur trip in the order as we experienced it
 Crossing Animas River |  Needle Creek Trailhead - boys got off the train | |
 Waterfall along Needle Creek Trail |  Mushroom along the trail | |
 Mountain goat visiting our campsite |  Duchess resting after a long hike in | |
 Cooking dinner in our outdoor kitchen |  Plenty of liquids to rehydrate with | |
 Twin Lakes |  Trail to Twin Lakes | |
 Beautiful cairns on the trail towards Sunlight |  Off to Sunlight | |
 Up towards Sunlight's summit |  Exposed move on Sunlight's summit block | |
 Summit block of Sunlight |  Below the summit block, Windom in the back | |
 Climber on Sunlight Spire |  Meditating on Sunlight Spire | |
 Traversing from Sunlight to Windom |  Between Sunlight and Windom, Twin Lakes and Eolus in the background | |
 Up Window Peak |  View towards Eolus from the slopes of Windom | |
 Together with my son on the summit |  Happy on our 2nd 14er of the day | |
 Signing the summit registry |  Windom's Peak summit | |
 Sunlight Spire as seen from Windom Peak, Grenadiers in the background |  Sunlight and Sunllight Spire from the top of Windom Peak | |
 Sunlight Spire detail - as seen from the summit of Windom |  American Marten | |
 Descending Windom Peak |  Twin Lakes with Eolus in the background | |
 Duchess hiking towards Twin Lakes |  Labor Day weekend was a busy one in Chicago Basin | |
 Morning yoga outside our tent |  Chipmunk eating his breakfast | |
 Goats on the way up to Eolus |  Twin Lakes from the trail towards Eolus | |
 Catwalk and Eolus in the background |  Catwalk and little exposure | |
 Colorful climbers on the catwalk |  Below the summit of Eolus | |
 On the summit of Eolus with Grenadiers in the background |  Turret and Pigeon Peak as seen from the summit | |
 Catwalk - the ridge between Eolus and North Eolus. |  Climbers on the summit of North Eolus | |
 Descending Eolus |  On the Catwalk | |
 Climbers on North Eolus |  Catwalk detail as seen from the slopes of North Eolus | |
 Summit of North Eolus with my brother |  Fat Marmot below Eolus | |
 Soaking feet in Twin Lakes |  Morning Yoga 2 | |
 Southern Slopes of Jupiter |  Duchess hiking up Jupiter Mountain | |
 Exposure near the summit |  Main summit of Jupiter Mountain | |
 On the summit of Jupiter Mountain | On the summit of Jupiter Mountain |  |
