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| ZeeJay | Very tough day hike  Date Climbed: Nov 9, 2009 | |
| 11/9/2009 Via the Uinta River and the Atwood Basin trails. Took off for the east ridge of Emmons just before Fourth Chain Lake. Very long but beautiful day, 26.5 miles RT. Almost no snow above treeline. Large sections of the trail had snow cover but except in one sheltered section it was only an inch or so deep. Lots of blowdowns across trail. Heard some very eerie sounds, kind of like space aliens, in the vicinity of the Chain Lakes. I'm assuming it was the ice? Note, there are many more switchbacks than are shown on the map. I'm upgrading my title from "Tough day hike" to "Very tough day hike". 15 hours RT. 5/26/2009 Started at the Swift Creek TH. Took the Swift Creek Trail to the 2nd stream crossing and then went up the Buffalo Creek Drainage and hit the ridge south of Owl. Went over Owl and S Emmons and then hit Emmons. Back the same way. If it hadn't been for the couple of inches of fresh snow above 12000' I could have done the whole thing without stepping in a speck of snow! I finally dumped the snowshoes on my way up S Emmons, wishing I had done it about 9 miles previous. The stream crossing was difficult, up to my knees in the worst spot, and flowing pretty swiftly. There were 3 or 4 different channels to cross. The first is by far the worst. The sleet started at about 10am and it sleeted and rained off and on the rest of the day but mostly off and never really hard except for when it was time to recross the stream which was really grim in the rain. The whole thing took 16 hours. I was in and out of the clouds so I did get some views but unfortunately Emmons was completely socked in. 6/18/2008 Started at Swift Creek TH. Bushwhacked to Water Lily Lake and then hiked the south ridge. 18 miles RT, virtually all off-trail with a 7000' total elevation gain, 14 hours RT. Also did S Emmons, Owl, and 11841. Beautiful day and beautiful views. | |
| Posted May 29, 2009 12:21 am | ||
| byates | Via Swift Creek | |
| Did the 2 13ers to the north and one to the south on the same day, Labor day weekend 2004. | |
| Posted Dec 7, 2008 10:58 pm | ||
| apachedino | 3 Emmons+Equinox Date Climbed: Sep 21, 2008 | |
| Camped at East Timothy and ascended S. Emmons, Emmons, the fantastic face of N. Emmons, Roberts and Trail Rider peak before descending for the day hoping to complete the ridge the next day. | |
| Posted Sep 24, 2008 1:22 pm | ||
| Scott | Route Climbed: South Ridge Date Climbed: August 1997, also other times on various ridges | |
| Nice peak. | |
| Posted Apr 20, 2004 10:50 pm | ||
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