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| Liba Hardekopf | great hike  | |
| great hike, did not meet anyone on the trail, long access... | |
| Posted Aug 25, 2009 7:32 pm | ||
| Liba Hardekopf | great hike | |
| great hike, did not meet anyone on the trail, long access... | |
| Posted Aug 25, 2009 7:31 pm | ||
| scooter12ga | East side via Truchas Lakes Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2008 | |
| Climbed via a grass chute south of the Truchas Lakes up to a SE ridge from Medio Truchas. Crossed a small snowfield near the Medio summit to a saddle on the North ridge of South Truchas. Ran face-to-face into a bighorn on the North ridge but otherwise had a great climb. Continued on to climb Middle (West) Truchas the same day and continued down the same route. No crowds at all, we saw about 5 other people the entire day. | |
| Posted Jul 10, 2008 3:20 pm | ||
| lizrdboy | Middle, Medio, South Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2006 | |
| The Rio Quemado basin must be the wettest spot in New Mexico. We braved stinging hail stormes, munched plump, wild raspberries and dodged Smurf sized mushrooms on the way to our goal. With storm clouds rolling in, we tagged South, Middle and Medio. We then stumbled down to the streams, ponds and meadows below and politely passed some high altitude grazing cows. Beef at 11,000 feet? Matt, who had spilled his mountain meal down his pants the night before (trying to keep warm while cooking...), seriously considered his chances of landing a steak dinner that night. The rain fall in the area had the falls running at high volume. Very cool. | |
| Posted Feb 23, 2007 3:54 am | ||
| swampclimber | 3 of 4 Date Climbed: Jun 25, 2005 | |
| Camped at Pecos Baldy Lake, climbed 3 of the 4 with my buddy rockrat2. | |
| Posted Jul 4, 2006 6:31 pm | ||
| rockrat2 | 3 of the peaks in a day | |
| My climbing partner and myself climbed three (all except North Truchas) in a day for a training run on Baker and Rainier. Wanted to get a heavy pack on us and get a little altitude before heading to the Cascades and these were the closest mountains to us. Not hard climb, (hike actually) but some incredible scenery and saw lots of sheep. Very long day with heavy packs. | |
| Posted Jun 20, 2006 9:49 pm | ||
| jfrishmanIII | Awesome summit! Date Climbed: May 13, 2006 | |
| We came over S. Truchas from E. Pecos Baldy Lake. No snow and great weather on the ascent. I found the view from the Middle-Medio ridge into Quemado basin way more of an eye-popper than the view from S. Truchas. We descended Medio's north ridge, and encountered a lot more postholing than expected on the way back from Truchas Lakes. | |
| Posted May 16, 2006 1:18 am | ||
| skorpeo | Route Climbed: Rio Medio Date Climbed: July 1998 | |
| I did all three with Bill Herbert in 1998 , I think. We were both living in Las Vegas , New Mexico at the time. I believe we started at the Rio Quemado, there was an acequia that we walked along for a few miles. Doing all three from there took 12 hours. At one of the summits we could both feel electricity on our fingertips so we descended a valley we did not come up. It added a couple of hours to our hike. Bill said it was the best day hike he had ever done. | |
| Posted Oct 18, 2005 11:11 am | ||
| highadventure15 | Route Climbed: Jacks Creek/Trailriders Wall Date Climbed: June 30 2005 | |
| Climbed in combination with Truchas Peak, good stuff | ||
| Posted Jul 4, 2005 12:08 pm | ||
| easleygone | Route Climbed: Rio Quemado trail Date Climbed: 1990 to 1998(10 times) | |
| This is one of the greatest climbs to be found! The first adventure is finding the trailhead which is due east of the town of Truches. After that its several miles of hiking along the gorgeous Rio Quemado stream in a beautiful forest up to and past a waterfall into the most beautiful basin below the Truches peaks. It a mixture of meadows and forest and many virgin campsites. In ten trips I rarely saw another person! I climbed all the peaks several times from this basin. It is one of the few climbs that I could never get enough of ! No one ever screwed with my vehicle but it would have been worth it anyway! | ||
| Posted Apr 2, 2005 1:25 am | ||
| truchas | Route Climbed: Jack's Creek Date Climbed: July 1999 | |
| Summitted South Truchas, Medio Truchas, and Middle Truchas. The weather was touch and go at times but held long enough to summit all 3 peaks. | |
| Posted Nov 24, 2003 12:15 pm | ||
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