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| Bubba Suess | Three Peaks, One Day  | |
| Hit Crater Peak, Magee Peak and the Red Cliffs after climbing out of the Thousand Lakes Valley. | |
| Posted Jan 7, 2009 2:16 pm | ||
| SeanReedy | Thanksgiving Hike Date Climbed: Nov 22, 2007 | |
| An extended dry, warm season tempted me to choose a higher destination than would normally be easily accessed as I continued my recent tradition of a holiday adventure. I left my parents place in Redding around 8:30 to venture to the Magee trailhead. I summited Magee Peak and then braved extreme windchill along the rim of the crater to make it up Crater Peak. Snow was only ankle deep at the top and was powdery enough that my feet stayed dry in my trail runners. The sky was crystal clear, allowing for amazing views in all directions of all the major California mountains not obscured by the dominant views of Lassen and Shasta. It only took me 1.25 hours at a fast pace to get to Magee Peak via the Magee trail, but the hike over to Crater Peak along with trail resgisters, photos, and taking in the views adds about an hour to the round trip. Total hike time car to car was a fast paced 4 hours, so I made it back to Redding by 3:30, in plenty of time for the feast. | |
| Posted Nov 24, 2007 2:56 pm | ||
| SeanReedy | Magee Trail Successfully Found and Climbed Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2007 | |
| A week prior to this hike, I had missed the side spur road to the trailhead and ending up climbing Jack's Backbone to the West of Crater Peak, across the main forest road. I ended up camping along Hat Creek again for Fourth of July week after spending the weekend at home and finding out that my wife wanted to go camping after missing out on the trip the week before. This time I set out with Lab Dylan and Kelpie Marley early in the afternoon. I easily located the unsigned Magee trailhead that had eluded me the week before and enjoyed a beautiful, but toasty hike with temps in the upper 80s at the beginning of a heatwave. Luckily there was lots of shade until the upper elevations and several snow patches inside the crater rim for the dogs to cool off in. I signed the summit resgister at Magee Peak before following the crater rim over to Crater Peak. Great views and lots of flying ants! | |
| Posted Jul 7, 2007 2:03 am | ||
| highice | fun | |
| nice hike and did a circumvent of the crater, then descended a different way. | |
| Posted Feb 3, 2007 4:22 pm | ||
| Dennis Poulin | Route Climbed: Magee Trail Date Climbed: 30 July 2005 | |
| Beautiful day for a hike. | |
| Posted Aug 2, 2005 5:11 pm | ||
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