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| mengbo | Day Hike from Disaster Creek TH  Date Climbed: Jul 7, 2012 | |
| This is peak is NOT hard. But after day-hike of Black Hawk Mtn in the morning (11 hours), it was hard for me then. Carefully route-finding will save you time. I followed a dry creek at beginning, then the obvious trail. Try to get up to the ridge, otherwise you will end up lots of bushwhacking. | |
| Posted Jul 8, 2012 12:09 pm | ||
| Marmaduke | Nice hike Date Climbed: Sep 16, 2011 | |
| A morning hike prior to doing Stanislaus Peak later in the day. Trail was hard to find at one point as the page mentioned but it ended up being a better route. Circled around and came up the north slope of the peak. | |
| Posted Sep 19, 2011 4:09 pm | ||
| mrchad9 | Disaster Creek Date Climbed: Sep 16, 2011 | |
| Easy but scenic hike up via Disaster Creek, after being turned back a couple years ago by snow blocking the road. Actually overshot the west ridge as I did not notice the trail cutting up the mountain and took the next one immediately north for about a mile, so from there up the northwest slope. Headed over to do Stanislaus Peak in the afternoon. | |
| Posted Sep 19, 2011 11:50 am | ||
| soslaw | West Ridge Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2011 | |
| Courted Disaster but she came around. Found what I thought was the climber's trail but it petered out so a fair amount of up hill cross country ensued. The three rolls of barbed wire mentioned by Bob Burd in 2002 and others are still there seemingly no worse for the wear despite that passage of nine years. | |
| Posted Aug 14, 2011 1:23 am | ||
| fedak | Disaster Creek/West Ridge Date Climbed: Oct 29, 2010 | |
| Nice sunny late season day I missed the turn for both the climbers trail and the formal trail and ended up heading cross country from the Paradise Valley trail. (Which turned out to be a reasonable route) Substantial snow on the higher peaks off towards Sonora Pass, but it was only a few inches on the north facing slopes in the Disaster vicinity. Cold enough to freeze up the cow shit at least :) Pics/commentary are here. | |
| Posted Nov 1, 2010 1:39 am | ||
| bryangast | Long Day Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2009 | |
| Climbed Disaster after hitting Arnot Peak, starting from Highland Lakes. We ascended from Paradise Valley and returned via the PCT. Round trip the hike was something like 18 miles. Beautiful area. The views of the Sonora Pass area are great. Hiked with Jonodo. | |
| Posted Jan 8, 2010 1:05 am | ||
| Jonodo | From Highland Lakes Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2009 | |
| Climbed Disaster after hitting Arnot Peak, starting from Highland Lakes. We ascended from Paradise Valley and returned via the PCT. Round trip the hike was something like 18 miles. Beautiful area. The views of the Sonora Pass area are great. Hiked with Bryangast. | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2009 3:32 pm | ||
| edevart | Morning Summit Date Climbed: Jun 7, 2008 | |
| Started at sunset and decided to pitch the hammock in the meadows near the intersection with the climber's trail. The meadows were very lush and wet this early in the season. Much of the climber's trail was covered in snowdrifts so I had trouble at times finding the route. Almost walked into a big brown black bear on the way down. Good stuff. | |
| Posted Jun 7, 2008 7:33 pm | ||
| Adamus | West Ridge Date Climbed: Jun 30, 2007 | |
| Nice hike for the most part. Lots of wildlife. Found the climbers' trail easily. | ||
| Posted Jul 10, 2007 5:23 am | ||
| Michael Graupe | West Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 8, 2007 | |
| After climbing Sonora Pk. and Stanislaus Pk. in the morning, this hike turned out to be thougher than expected. First I missed the faint use trail completely and ended up climbing Pt.9251 from the west. Saw a bear on this steep slope. Then climbed the West Ridge from there. On the descent I managed to find the use trail just to lose it a few minutes later and ended up descending a steep gully >1000ft straight down to the main trail. | |
| Posted Jul 9, 2007 4:59 pm | ||
| steve_hiebert | Distaster Peak Under Gunfire Date Climbed: Sep 24, 2006 | |
| Climbed with my friends Bruce and Dee. I think we took the regular route. There was a lot of gunfire near the road from the hunters. I also saw a bear on the way up. | |
| Posted Jun 13, 2007 6:58 pm | ||
| derbilly | 1st Ascent! Date Climbed: Apr 28, 2007 | |
| .. for 2007. Seems like this peak doesn't get much traffic. | |
| Posted Apr 29, 2007 9:52 pm | ||
| mlarkin2002 | Dayhike Date Climbed: Apr 28, 2007 | |
| Took advantage of SR108 being open early this year for one weekend. Clark road -> Disaster Ck. -> Paradise Valley -> Summit, down via W side. | ||
| Posted Apr 29, 2007 4:28 am | ||
| Matthew Holliman | Route Climbed: North Slopes (ascent) / South Slopes (descent) Date Climbed: Oct 19, 2003; Oct 15, 2004 | |
| Mine was the first entry in the register this year. I guess Bob's and Dan's faint praise for this peak has been keeping people away... I found the trails in this area to be confusing--many are not shown on the map, and it's not always clear whether they're poor trails or good use trails in places. Came back almost a year later to pad my SPS stats for the year. Other slogs like Stanislaus and Leavitt were much more enjoyable the second time around, but Disaster was as cruddy as I'd remembered. I think that second climb was my last visit to this peak. | |
| Posted Oct 20, 2003 12:56 pm | ||
| Bob Burd | Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: Aug 15, 2002 | |
| A nice afternoon hike. Only problems were a bit of route-finding (some maps show a trail heading to the southwest side, but it's hard to find and faint in places) and the barbed wire fence going up on the West Ridge. There's actually a place called Paradise Valley just to the north that is a Wilderness cow pasture - how nice. Cow patties litter most of the slopes around this peak. Trip Report | |
| Posted Jun 11, 2003 11:24 am | ||
| keema | Route Climbed: Soutwest side Date Climbed: July 28, 2001 & June 8, 2003 | |
| 2001camped with extended family along Clark Fork. On the climb met one other person on the summit and saw two other people along the trail. I wasted about an hour looking for the climbers trail too far south. A hot dusty trip. 2003 was a muddy trip. Again wasted about an hour looking for the climbers trail. Found it and then lost it again in patches of snow, mud and blow down. Spent most of the trip cross country. On the descent lost the trail and picked up Disaster Creek trail about a quarter mile north the trail junction. Saw nobody else the entire day. Interesting trips. Pretty easy navigation.  | |
| Posted Jun 11, 2003 8:45 am | ||
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