Re: [Philmont]: Clark Forks to Black Mountain Camp - Trail Peak Direct

 
The direct trail leaves from Fowler Park (I think that's the name) in the
meadow in the saddle above Crater Lake. It goes straight up Trail Peak to the
summit. The plane crash site is another few hundred yards beyond the summit
if you hike from Fowler Park to the Trail Peak summit.
 
We hiked the direct route in 2003. We let our fast scouts go ahead and
agreed to meet at the summit to regroup. Four of us caterpillared up the trail.
The fastest in the first group was about 40 minutes. The rest of us were on
top in about 1 hour after a steady hike. There are no real switchbacks on
the trail, just a few wiggles back and forth on a steady upward climb. We
were on our way from Bear Caves to Beaubein that day (Trek 4) and decided to
hike to top of Trail Peak on the way rather than do it as a side hike from
Beaubein. We were glad we did. Nice trail down from Trail Peak crash site to
Beaubein on new series of switchbacks.
 
Hope that answers the question about Trail Peak.
 
Charlie Pineo
Assoc. Crew Advisor
Troop 994 Crew, 721B2, Trek 4, 2003
_www.troop994.org_ (http://www.troop994.org)
 
In a message dated 7/9/2004 6:17:20 PM Eastern Standard Time,
drbob@troop111.org writes:

Don't remember what trail on Trail Peak - whichever one that basically
went straight up the mountain. I did it as a Scout, over 30 years ago,
carrying about a 70 pound pack (>50% of my body weight, then). The pain
faded, the memory remains.

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Received on Fri Jul 9 18:18:29 2004