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| ZeeJay | Fun peak  Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2009 | |
| My last Utah 13000 footer! Headed to this one after climbing East Lovenia. Traversed the north side of the cliffs between the two. Day trip from the East Fork Blacks Fork TH. | |
| Posted Aug 19, 2009 2:53 pm | ||
| byates | a July 4th snows storm Date Climbed: Jun 4, 2005 | |
| With Janet Craig with flurries. | |
| Posted Dec 7, 2008 11:00 pm | ||
| Peter Gram | From East Fork Blacks Fork | |
| I climbed Lovenia and its eastern neighbor as a day hike in 2004. It was a brutally long day with lots of swampy ground (in July), and difficult creek crossings. It is quite beautiful in the remote basin below the peaks. | |
| Posted Jan 13, 2008 11:43 pm | ||
| polarjud | Mt. Lovenia via EFBF & Red Knob Pass Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2007 | |
| I took the same route as Scott in 1988. There was no snow on the way. Clouds on top. I was the only person on the mountain that day. I am 51 now and when I looked up toward the summit from Red Knob Pass, I experienced a real moment of trepidation, but I had a strong compulsion to follow through on my plans. I had just attended the annual meeting of American statisticians, which happened to be in Salt Lake City in the summer of 2007. Too good of an opportunity to pass. I had tried to find a fellow statistician to be my climbing buddy but couldn't find anyone. I followed some of the tips in the "Utah Thirteeners" guide by David Rose. Excellent preparation. The biggest challenge was the crumbling cliffs just shortly past the pass. Once I climbed through one of the chimneys, I thought I could make it the rest of the way. To help me on the descent, I set extra waypoints in my Garman GPS on the way up. On the way down, the batteries ran down. I replaced them with a spare set, but one of the new batteries must have been bad in some way because the unit started reporting my position very erratically. It would constantly be shifting me vertically and horizontally in every direction hundreds of feet. It totally messed up my tracks which I had hoped to follow back down. I swapped in a second pair of backup batteries. What a relief to see my position reported stably! Since the tracks were totally confused, I was very glad to have set the extra waypoints. I had my base camp in a meadow about 10,900 feet along the East Fork Blacks Fork Trail about 8.5 miles from the trailhead. Very nice place. Plenty of water, even in a very dry year. As I drove in to the Wasatch-Cache National Forest, there were lots of signs advertising extreme fire danger, but it was very wet above 9,300 feet. Marshes were very common on the trek from the trailhead. Saw no one the first day. I had a late start driving up from the convention. I started walking about 5:30 in the afternoon, and had to walk in the dark the last hour or so. Saw some fresh-looking bear scat along the way. Started making noise as I walked. Saw one cowboy with sheepskin chaps the second day leading a spare horse over Red Knob Pass. Not a talkative fellow. Barely said hello. Third day, I bushwhacked over in the direction of Tokewanna to look at some lakes. Those were disappointing, but I found a low altitude patch of snow and had fun with it. After returning to my base camp and packing it up, I was overtaken by a real friendly nut. In practice for the Utah 100. Had already run 26 miles over the Squaw and Red Knob Passes, visiting Crater Lake in between. He was looking to do 35 by the end of the day. No safety margin that I could see. Alone without rain gear, shelter, water filter, or extra food. Nice guy though. He has young children. I asked how he convinced his wife to let him go so much. He replied that she understood this was his lifestyle. Next, I saw a large group of teenagers being led by a young woman of perhaps 28 years. I suspect that they were substance abusers who had been sent by their parents or the courts for healing via fresh air, exercise, and solitude. Remarkable woman to lead a group of 12 or so by herself as far as I could see. Maybe though one of the males was also a leader whom I did not notice. Altogether, a spectacular 3 days and 2 nights. I'll post some pictures, too. | |
| Posted Aug 7, 2007 12:38 am | ||
| apachedino | Route Climbed- West Blacks Fork from Deadhorse Lake Date Climbed: Jul 19, 2006 | |
| Thanks to Scott for directing me to the beautiful West Fork of Blacks Fork, surely one of the most gorgeous backpacking canyons I have been too, great camping at Deadhorse also. Came across Red Knob pass after camping to the sound of thousands of sheep grazing below, we could hear them all the way to the summit. Nice scrambling to the top and great views, rained on the way back, but we got off the ridge before any lightning hit. We were scared from the day before were we climbed to the pass to Allsop Lake only to get hailed on and threatened by lightning that was way to close for comfort as we ran back to tree cover. | |
| Posted Oct 4, 2006 8:59 pm | ||
| Scott | Route Climbed: East Fork Blacks Fork/Red Knob Pass Date Climbed: July 1988 | |
| I first climbed the peak with my friend Chris, Father (Russell Patterson), and brother Mark Patterson, but only Chris and myself made the summit. My brother turned back at Red Knob Pass, and my father turned back about 200 feet from the summit. It was a three day trip over the 4th of July weekend in 1988. On another trip I did most of the East Lovenia to Lovenia Ridge, but bypassed the summit of Lovenia because I had already climbed it before. | |
| Posted Dec 18, 2005 10:37 pm | ||
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