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| aprovance | Via Kolob Basin Overlook  Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2009 | |
| Routefinding at it's best. A really fun hike, not too bad as long as you pick a good route up. Fifty minutes to summit. Found the registry in the cairn at the top, and put paper and a pen in the plastic bottle and put it in an old camo colored carrying case I found on the way up. Last to sign it was Bruce Christensen, whose entry is right below this one. Didn't see a soul or even hear an ATV! | |
| Posted Aug 12, 2009 4:37 pm | ||
| Bruce Christensen | Via Little Rock Canyon Date Climbed: Apr 29, 2008 | |
| Finally made it up this thing with my friend John via Little Rock Canyon. I'd never been up that canyon, but it is absolutely beautiful. The going was fun and easy about halfway up the canyon, and then it turned into nasty screen and scrub oak bushwhacking. We reached the drainage that flows from the saddle and then tagged both summits. Started at 5:30 a.m., took 7 hours to summit. Glissaded down the snowfield from the saddle to the drainage between Buckley and Horse mountains and exited via Slate Canyon. That route was quick and easy. About 2.5 hours from the north summit to the Slate Canyon trailhead. | |
| Posted Apr 29, 2008 12:23 pm | ||
| peachey | Fun climb! Date Climbed: Oct 27, 2007 | |
| I climbed up from the Kolob Basin Overlook, hit both peaks, and was back to my car in about 2 hours. The views were spectacular! I placed a geocache at the top. | |
| Posted Oct 29, 2007 11:13 am | ||
| Bruce Christensen | Made it halfway up the west side Date Climbed: Oct 26, 2007 | |
| I've been eying Buckley for a long time, and I finally decided to go up and check it out today. I parked at the end of Mountain View Parkway (just off State Street) and just started walking straight up the ridge. I started at 4pm, so I didn't expect to make it all the way to the top. I gained the first 2000 feet (to 6500 feet) in about an hour. It was pretty quick going over grass, dirt, and occasional talus. There were a few sections of scrub oak, but nothing too bad. The second hour was a different story. The scrub oak got pretty dense in a lot of places, which slowed me down quite a bit. There was also some third class scrambling in one small section. (I avoided scrambling or downclimbing on the way back, so I guess I didn't really need to climb.) I made it to about 7700 feet before turning around. It levels out right there, and you can see both the north and the south summit. There's a relatively flat spot there were you could camp. It looked from there that you could probably follow the ridge all the way to the north summit, but there's a medium-size cliff band that you'd have to go around. The views of the sunset over Utah Lake were great, as usual. I stayed at 7700 feet for about 20 minutes and then headed back down. I reached the car a little before 8pm. | |
| Posted Oct 26, 2007 10:26 pm | ||
| Tracy | climbed up Toad Head on the west side Date Climbed: Feb 26, 1986 | |
| David Raymert and I did a night hike up to the top of Toad Head, elevation 7369 feet. 14 or 15 months later, my wife Lori and I were traveling the Hobble Creek Canyon to Provo Canyon Squaw Peak Trail Road in our old '63 Volkswagon bus and 3/4s of a mile north of the road's highpoint at Kolob Basin Overlook we found a huge snowdrift blocking the road where the road turns west for a short stretch. Trying to go back uphill was slippery and we almost made it, but just north of Kolob Basin Overlook, the bus kept trying to slide off the road to the west. We decided to abandon the vehicle for the night and hike down Slate Canyon in the dark without flashlights. Lori slipped a few times and her shins got quite bloody (It's more than 20 years later, and she still reminds me of that!). We bummed a ride back to our basement apartment in north Provo from some kids who were 4-wheelin' in 'Mom's Suburban' near the mouth of Slate Canyon. The next day, I drove back with a Hi-Lift jack, some wooden planks, and my brother and we were able to get the bus out. All that effort in the general vicinity and I still haven't bagged the peak! | |
| Posted Oct 16, 2007 2:23 am | ||
| vanman798 | From the East Side Date Climbed: Oct 12, 2007 | |
| Nice 1/2 day hike, offering excellent views of the valley and all seven of the highest peaks in Utah County. No trail, and no people! | |
| Posted Oct 16, 2007 12:04 am | ||
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