March 21 Climb Up the Rocky Creek Canyon Trail

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Vaca Russ
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March 21 Climb Up the Rocky Creek Canyon Trail

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OK, so this isn’t a report about an epic traverse of the Crystal Range in the dead of winter “SOLO”! But, not everybody is Superman! :D :p :nod:

Last Saturday we took Rocky Creek Canyon Trail up to the summit of Pyramid Peak. We started at the trailhead across the highway from the 59 mile marker sign.
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After a short distance we met Kimberley form Pollock Pines and two of her friends. Kimberley had said she often read HST, although she had never posted a report.
2 Kimberley.JPG
We saw a total of 9 other people on this trail this busy Saturday. That included these two young skiers / split boarders who climbed to the summit to ski down to Aloha.
3 Skiers.JPG
Their plan was then to skin back up and follow the trail back to their vehicle.

Here is a picture of my beautiful girl about half way to the summit.
4 Half Way Up.JPG
Here she is just below the talus strewn summit block.
5 Summit Block.JPG
If you look closely, you can see her far down the summit ridge.
6 SSR.JPG
She made the Summit! That is Price and Agassiz under her right arm.
7 Sport Summit.JPG
So she pulled out her phone and recorded a video for something called “Facebook” (???) :) . If you look closely you can see Union Valley Reservoir in the distance.
8 Playing with Phone.JPG
It was very, very windy on the summit. We didn’t spend a lot of time up there. Soon we found ourselves heading back down the mountain.
9 Going Back.JPG
It warmed up quite a bit by the time we climbed down the embankment to highway 50.
10 Sport Trailhead.JPG
Thank you for reading our post!

-Russ
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