Little Black Mountain Trail
Oct. 27th, 2013 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Yesterday we decided to go for a hike before the fall colors were completely gone and it was too cold at high altitudes - so we went back to City Creek Canyon and headed up a very old trail and then hiked toward Little Black Mountain until it was too late to get back by dark.
This is the route according to Nick's camera's GPS (I forgot to wear my GPS watch)
As you can see, the Pipeline trail is... poorly marked....
But it brought us, steeply and quickly, to a seven way intersection:
And since we'd seen lots of views of the city (and the city is under a pretty bad inversion right now), we headed toward Little Black Mountain.
Inversion:
Our goal, if we could make it before we had to head back to our bikes, was the ridge on the right, several ridges before Little Black Mountain:
Apparently the trail is very popular with trail runners and we saw a lot of them (and found ourselves running down a lot of the trail on the way back, since that was actually easier):
We got to around 7,100 feet at 4:30 and decided we had to turn back, so we had a snack and enjoyed the view:
Next up we plan on taking a quicker route to the start of the trail and starting earlier so we can go all the way to Little Black Mountain. Then, after that, maybe Grandview Peak, which can be seen here:
This is the route according to Nick's camera's GPS (I forgot to wear my GPS watch)
As you can see, the Pipeline trail is... poorly marked....
But it brought us, steeply and quickly, to a seven way intersection:
And since we'd seen lots of views of the city (and the city is under a pretty bad inversion right now), we headed toward Little Black Mountain.
Inversion:
Our goal, if we could make it before we had to head back to our bikes, was the ridge on the right, several ridges before Little Black Mountain:
Apparently the trail is very popular with trail runners and we saw a lot of them (and found ourselves running down a lot of the trail on the way back, since that was actually easier):
We got to around 7,100 feet at 4:30 and decided we had to turn back, so we had a snack and enjoyed the view:
Next up we plan on taking a quicker route to the start of the trail and starting earlier so we can go all the way to Little Black Mountain. Then, after that, maybe Grandview Peak, which can be seen here:
