Lone Peak has been bagged. This was a HARD hike! Arguably harder than Mt Whitney last year. While it’s not a particularly tall mountain at 11,260 feet, when you take the Cherry Canyon Logging Trail, you start out at a very low elevation right at the valley floor and hike all the way up.
We started out just before dawn and got to see the daybreak across the Salt Lake valley as we climbed.
About 2/3 of the way up, there is the landmark Outlaw Cabin. Outlaw in name only, it was built as a shelter before the area was designated as Wilderness in 1978.
Bizarre landscape.
Amazing perseverance.
Haggered life.
The peak.
On the tippy top. A bit of a sketchy climb and then a very small table top peak.
We’ve been prepping for this hike all summer long. I’ve been looking at the peak whenever I get a chance and envisioning standing on the top. It’s really fun to have made it up and looked back across the valley back at myself.
Hiking down via a different route than we took up. Very steep.
360 degree pano of the view with Lone Peak on the left and Utah Valley on the right.
11.25 hours
17.2 miles
7400 feet of ascent