PRECIPICE PEAK, AMPHITHEATRE ROUTE
3.86 miles round trip, 2,560 ft. gain to 13,144 ft. summit. BLACK: Cimarron Road LIGHT BLUE: 4WD road RED: Ascent route BLUE: Optional route ORANGE: Amphitheatre
1: Trailhead 2: Wilderness boundary marker, beginning of bushwack 3: First clearing 4: Timberline, a cairn and boulderfield 5: Tundra slope 6: Coves and traverse to rock slabs 7: Tundra on south side of amphitheater 8: Notch through hoodoo spires (easy Class 3) 9: Secondary summit 10: Loose rocks on alternate route
This map denotes the "Big Blue Wilderness," but the area has been renamed (and rightly so) the Uncompahgre Wilderness.
TOPO! edit and embellishments by Aaron Johnson