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| Adamus | Dayhike from China Spring  Date Climbed: Sep 5, 2009 | |
| 4:20 from TH to summit. A nice hike through a beautiful area. Grizzly lake was awesome. Unfortunately just prior to reaching the ridge the whoel area was engulfed in clouds and I summitted in near whiteout. I wasn't too cold though. There were at least five markers on the various blocks. It rained a little on the hike out. | |
| Posted Sep 8, 2009 7:16 pm | ||
| Pantilat | Via Canyon Creek Lakes | |
| June 2009, straightforward climb with great views! | |
| Posted Aug 31, 2009 3:32 pm | ||
| derbilly | Canyon Creek Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2007 | |
| Climbed Ceasar Pk and Thompson from the Canyon Creek approach. Took the hard way up Ceasar along the south ridge and then skirted the glacier on the north side to climb eventually from the west ridge and then returned to Canyon Creek across the south ridge. Beautiful area. | |
| Posted Aug 21, 2007 8:15 pm | ||
| highice | rap the falls | |
| did the summit and got down prior to a lightning storm coming in. nice show to see as we ate dinner...missed parts of it because I was busy picking the pees out of my freeze dried meal. next day we woke and I rapped the falls. what a wake up call, beats coffee! | |
| Posted Feb 5, 2007 9:53 pm | ||
| CBoldt1010 | Killer Deer!! Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2006 | |
| Hiked up from Hobo Gulch and to Papoose Lake near Bear Valley Meadows and yes we saw a bear! Not to mention the deer that ripped open our packs and ran off with all our clothes. Hiked around Wedding Cake and up to Thompsons Peak. Lots of loose rock but nice views. | |
| Posted Nov 16, 2006 9:45 pm | ||
| bajaandy | Canyon Creek Backpack | |
| One of the most enjoyable backpacking trips ever. Spent a couple of days at the lakes, climbing and swimming and one day to the summit. | |
| Posted Mar 9, 2006 4:08 pm | ||
| trinityalpsman | Thompson Peak Date Climbed: Aug 12, 1978 | |
| From camp at Grizzly Lake, hiked to ridge and looked down on Lois Lake and then followed the ridge to summit. Found fire rings near summit. USGS brass caps on summit rocks were a little further than I dared to go. | |
| Posted Feb 20, 2006 3:54 am | ||
| Samantha | Route Climbed: Grizzly Lake from China Gulch Date Climbed: Aug. 27, 2005 | |
| Wow the Trinity Alps are alive and beautiful! Not used to climbing summits with all them trees.... Daytrippers will love this, but will also want to come back and spend 2-3 days for sure. Worst part is the drive out--not a soul or soda to be had for 3 hours! I recommend cutting across to the 3 at Weed (by way of FSRoad 17) rather than Weaverville. | |
| Posted Sep 8, 2005 7:53 pm | ||
| Dennis Poulin | Route Climbed: China Gulch Date Climbed: 3 September 2005 | |
| Beautiful area. This is a long tough dayhike. | |
| Posted Sep 4, 2005 7:46 pm | ||
| Dave K | Route Climbed: Grizzly Lake Date Climbed: Aug. 27, 2005 | |
| Fun, but long dayhike. The waterfall and old growth forest we passed through was spectacular. We saw and heard quite a bit of wildlife, including a black bear, a couple of gray foxes, a spotted owl and a sharp-shinned hawk, which spent several minutes hunting Clark's nutcrakers. | |
| Posted Aug 28, 2005 5:51 pm | ||
| Matthew Holliman | Route Climbed: Canyon Creek Lakes Date Climbed: July 31, 2005 | |
| What Rob said. Not as much fun as Cosmic Wall the day before, but it was still a blast... beautiful area, and this peak has a pretty cool summit block too. | |
| Posted Aug 16, 2005 2:42 pm | ||
| rhyang | Route Climbed: Canyon Creek Lakes Date Climbed: 31-July-2005 | |
| Climbed with Matthew, dayhiking out of the Canyon Creek trailhead. Long day, started 5:30am, got back around 8:30pm. Routefinding past upper lake difficult. Permanent snowfields were easy to kick steps into. Easy access to ridge via several chutes. Matthew traversed the ridge directly. I descended a bit to the west and traversed until finding the 3rd class gully that most people seem to use. Unlike last year, this time I got up to the highest summit block (I guess I can no longer call myself the worst rock climber on the planet). We then traversed south over to Wedding Cake (~8500') via a 3rd class gully on its west side (east side is very steep). Unexpected thunderstorm in the afternoon around 4:30-5. Stunningly beautiful this time of year, many wildflowers in meadows above upper lake. -- Route Climbed: Grizzly Lake Date Climbed: 7-August-2004 No ice axe or crampons needed, great views. I managed to sign the register and checked out a memorial plaque on one of the other blocks, but the highest block (with two USGS markers) was just out of reach - probably a few inches higher than the block I found the register on. Fantastic ! | |
| Posted Aug 1, 2005 3:13 pm | ||
| bennadler | Route Climbed: SW ridge Date Climbed: april 2002 | |
| cold and desolate. awsome! The glacier is getting smaller every year -global warming? | |
| Posted Jun 29, 2004 12:29 am | ||
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