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| Bob Burd | Somewhat lame summit  Date Climbed: Oct 30, 2009 | |
| The trail from Devils Peak to the summit is like being a rat in a maze with chaparral well over one's head. And the summit is disappointing with weak views. Oh well, I guess they can't all be spectacular... Trip Report | |
| Posted Nov 3, 2009 6:48 pm | ||
| JHH60 | Nice view | |
| Hiked up a number of times from Bottcher's gap. | |
| Posted Jun 23, 2009 2:00 pm | ||
| puma_patrick | Botcher's Gap Date Climbed: Jun 19, 2009 | |
| Hike in since the burn of 08, and the trail was opened in May. a goodly amount of poison oak on the first hour of the hike. The trail is improved along the burn line at the base of Devils Peak. | |
| Posted Jun 22, 2009 8:24 pm | ||
| mlarkin2002 | Dayhike Date Climbed: May 17, 2008 | |
| A hot dayhike from Bottcher's Gap. 95 F at the trailhead, 85 F on the summit. Flies and ticks weren't too bad. Average views. Combined with Devil's Peak. | ||
| Posted May 19, 2008 1:55 am | ||
| rhyang | On the way to Pat Spring Date Climbed: May 2, 2008 | |
| Tagged on the way to Pat Spring to do Ventana Double Cone the next day. Also did this a number of years ago while dayhiking from Bottcher's .. 2002 ? | |
| Posted May 4, 2008 7:49 pm | ||
| WickedRugged | From Bottcher's Gap Date Climbed: Mar 10, 2007 | |
| Hiked this as a day hike in combination (obviously) with Devil's Peak. A great clear day, warm and pleasant. Perfect time of year for the hike. | |
| Posted Mar 28, 2008 8:04 pm | ||
| metasyn11 | From Bottchers Gap Date Climbed: Jan 22, 2007 | |
| A scattered inch or two of snow above Devil's Peak, which was melting fast in the warm afternoon sun. Not difficult to find the route to the top, although the views are much better from Devil's Peak. A decent hike. | |
| Posted Mar 9, 2007 6:32 am | ||
| redtroll | We shoulda brought skis Date Climbed: Jan 15, 2006 | |
| We only climbed Devil's Peak due to time restraints, but it was challendging hiking on 3 inches of snow up the south face of Devil's peak. | ||
| Posted Oct 8, 2006 4:16 am | ||
| Koohnavard | Route Climbed: Mount Carmel via Botcher's Gap Date Climbed: March 29, 2005 | |
| Great day hike with many options to push on to further summits. We made a beautiful trail run of it and cooled down with a cold one back at Botcher's Gap. The drive up can be precarious, use caution and watch your speed with on-coming traffic. | |
| Posted Jan 16, 2006 11:35 am | ||
| QuailBS | Route Climbed: From Bottchers Gap Date Climbed: Early November 2004 | |
| A nice hike from Bottchers gap. Did the hike in the morning to avoid possible high temps. Met up with 2 men at the peak whom were very helpful at pointing out many peaks and locations. A great hike, but not much of a veiw unless you get up on the large rock at the peak. I think that rock needs a special name. | |
| Posted Jul 17, 2005 6:25 pm | ||
| davehead | Route Climbed: Skinner Ridge Trail from Bottchers Gap Date Climbed: 4/26/05 | |
| Good hike. Tough from the other end of Skinners Ridge up to Devils Peak. Great views from there south into the Ventana Wilderness except it was a little hazy this day. The trail was not as overgrown as others I have hiked in the Ventana Wilderness. The most overgrown was the last 1/4 mile or so to the summit. A lot of Lupine and other wild flowers out but quite a bit of flies as well. | ||
| Posted Apr 27, 2005 4:50 pm | ||
| puma_patrick | Route Climbed: Bottchers Gap Campground Date Climbed: March 6, 2005 | |
| Palo Colorado Road..........Look out for the canyon people! Say hello to Larry, he lives in the 1969 Airstream Bambi at the park. Oh, pay your five bucks or he will give you a ticket. The hike up is a good workout, my time was 2:14 to summit. I am over 50. The summit is still overgrown. Take plenty of H2O, those who don't suffer. Great View! Patrick | |
| Posted Mar 8, 2005 7:57 pm | ||
| brianhughes | Route Climbed: from Bottcher's Gap Campground Date Climbed: January 25th, 2004 | |
| See my Trip Report for more details. | |
| Posted Jan 25, 2004 11:56 pm | ||
| Lippo | Date Climbed: February 2 2003 | |
| Easy hike. Close to home. | |
| Posted Nov 22, 2003 7:34 am | ||
| fedak | Route Climbed: Skinner Ridge Trail from Bottchers Gap Date Climbed: 16-Nov-2003 | |
| After plowing through snow on my last two outings, Carmel was a nice change of pace (plowing through chaparral instead). Weather was mild for mid November. Pics are here: http://www.fedak.net/albums/MtCarmel.html p.s. Be sure to check out mpbro's posting. This junction is easy to miss. | |
| Posted Nov 17, 2003 12:03 pm | ||
| Misha | Route Climbed: Skinner Ridge Trail Date Climbed: December 29, 2002 | |
| Hiked this round top with my girlfriend a couple of hours ago. It was fun and rather tough near the summit where we had to break through solid and very wet/cold bushes! There was at least a 1/2 foot of snow covering the trail starting at the Devil's Peak summit. Due to the lack of footprints on the snow, we believe that we were the only ones hiking it recently... except for the unknown creature who summited it shortly before us (see my pics). Weather was changing every 30 minutes, ranging from rain to sun to snow and back to rain.... Trail is wonderful and we loved our hike. We will certainly be back for a longer trip to Ventana Double Cone! | |
| Posted Dec 29, 2002 9:18 pm | ||
| mpbro | Route Climbed: Skinner Ridge trail Date Climbed: 9 November 2002 | |
| Lower section of the hike was nice, if unremarkable. Got some interesting views around the Skinner Ridge overlook, but the clouds obscured things a bit. The final push through the brush to the Mount Carmel summit was tough, if you are taller than a deer. | |
| Posted Nov 13, 2002 1:20 pm | ||
| butterflywings73 | Route Climbed: Botter's Gap Date Climbed: 8/21/01 | |
| The trails was quite overgrown and now well marked at all. We did make the summit, however we ended up taking a wrong turn along the way (at the point that the campgrounds intersect). We contemplated turning around once we reached Devil's Peak (which was the most difficult portion of the climb). But we decided to continue on, and I'm glad we did. The climb to the summit wasn't that much more father, and a lot less difficult. The summit is marked only by a pile of rocks. You must climb up these to get any view due to the overgrown bushes all around. Watch out for the boyscouts at the base, and the large buses on the seemingly one lane, but paved, road that takes you to Botter's Gap. | |
| Posted Sep 8, 2002 3:12 pm | ||
| John | Route Climbed: Mount Carmel Trail from Bottchers Gap Date Climbed: March 16, 2002 | |
| I was feeling really lazy Saturday morning and didn't want to take my 2WD car up to Tahoe for the weekend, so I looked for a short nearby hike. I was thinking of doing Mount Tam from Muir Woods, but I couldn't find my National Parks Pass so I went to Big Sur instead. I headed up in running shorts, sneakers, and a long sleeve t-shirt. There were some minor patches of snow at 2700' becoming more pronounced at 2900'. About 90+% the 0.8 mile Mount Carmel Trail was covered with up to 4 inches fresh snow and my fingers were freezing as I took photos on the summit. I drank about 10 oz. of water but I was hungry and didn't have any food so I made and ate 3 snowballs. On the way down at about 2710' I ran into a snowman that I believe a couple made. On my hike in, I saw 1 couple (with dog) and 1 guy (also with dog) hiking out of Pat Springs so I assume that it was the couple that made him for Easter :-) Neither group did the Mount Carmel Trail after the snow, so that part was a very pristine hike / experience. | |
| Posted Mar 18, 2002 10:34 am | ||
| gordonye | Route Climbed: Botcher's Gap Date Climbed: June 1999 | |
| My partner wasn't up for the hot weather and swarming flies, so we turned back at Skinner Ridge. | |
| Posted Mar 18, 2002 10:26 am | ||
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