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This is my trip report: the full days report can be found on my blog along my blog of climbing all the 14ers this summer at freeoutside.com
I took the Kilpacker Creek approach up to El Diente and then made the traverse over to Mt Wilson. The trail is very straightforward for nearly the entire hike until the lasts few hundred feet of elevation gain to the top of El diente. I found the rocks to be very shifty and was constantly worried about knocking rocks and boulders down on the others climbing. I was successful in avoiding this but I would very careful on this section. Near the top of el diente around 8 am there was quite a bit of frost and it made the rocks very slippery. Gloves would have been helpful as well as the cold bit into my fingers every time I touched the from. Other than this El Diente was very straightforward.
The traverse to wilson was not a bad one but it was very hard to keep the correct route. It seems to be the best way to go is to drop down at first below the ridge and then gradually make your way up to the top of the ridge again once you have passed the cliffs. In the end if you are always looking ahead you should be able to avoid getting cliffed out, or getting too far off course. There are some Cairns that are useable. There was also frost during this traverse as the sun had not hit it yet and it presented the same problems.
To descend down from Mt. Wilson we walked down the gulch where there was snow and rock hopped until we hit the trail again. This seemed like the easiest way to go and it seemed that many other people had the same idea in order to avoid having to traverse back to El Diente.
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