Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Bennett's Peak Hike

Big, big country up where 13,203' Bennett's Peak raises its bulk. Tiny lakes store water that heads down Middle San Francisco Peak. Steep, severely eroded rocky trails lead to near the top.

All eleven who started at Blowout Pass learned the source of the name. Big winds from New Mexico fires blew us to the top. Little flowers withstood the constant blowing and have survived the drought.

All eleven made it to the wind shelter of the rock pile on the summit. All eleven made it down the rolling-rock trail. If the eleven are reading this, they made it home,to a well-deserved rest.

Remember the Thursday "hike" at Chimney Rock starts at 8 a.m. Next Thursday we'll try the Continental Divide Trail, allowing visitors to join us and to go as far as they can at their own pace. A few of us will seek to reach the pretty lakes on the Great Divide, starting at Lobo Point. We meet at the Visitor Center in South Fork to car-pool. 9 a.m.
--Doug Knudson 873-5239

Top of second Tier – more to come

Top of the hill  Bennett

Source of W. san Francisco Cr.

Cliffs on Bennett Pk area

Sky Pilot Polemonium viscosum

Cut saisy (prob.) E. compositus

Linda, Marty, Pat, Dave, Wayne, Linda, Marilyn, Wayne O. – Jim, Doug

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