Electric Pass to Conundrum trail.
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joelmpaula
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Electric Pass to Conundrum trail.
Doing Electric peak next week. What is the trail like from the top of Electric pass to the Conundrum trail?
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kaiman
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Re: Electric Pass to Conundrum trail.
Steep, loose, unmaintained, faint, and not recommended. Using the Cathedral Lake approach/descent is the best option in my opinion.joelmpaula wrote:Doing Electric peak next week. What is the trail like from the top of Electric pass to the Conundrum trail?
Edit: You can see a trail from the summit of Electric Pass Peak that goes from Cataract Creek to the Conundrum Creek trail, the problem is the 1000 foot drop to Cataract Creek on steep scree to get to it.
Kai
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Re: Electric Pass to Conundrum trail.
This advice is so unnerving that it sounds exaggerated, but it's probably not; I've always heard the same about that old trail.kaiman wrote:Steep, loose, unmaintained, faint, and not recommended.
After studying the terrain along Conundrum Creek a few times, I am certain I have located it, though it has no signage or markings or cairns whatsover.
Side note- the one time I attempted to hike up this trail, from Conundrum Creek, didn't go so well: With unusual arrogance, I attempted to cross the creek to the east side, using my usual method of crossing barefoot, trekking poles in hand, waistbelt unclipped. Of course the crystal clear water was much deeper than it looked, and it was high spring runoff. Halfway across I reversed course.
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kaiman
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Re: Electric Pass to Conundrum trail.
I'm not trying to exaggerate things, it's doable, but not worth it in my opinion, unless you like masochism that comes with torturing yourself unnecessarily on bad Elk Mountain rock. My climbing partner and I descended that route from the summit of Electric Pass Peak after hiking up the trail from Cathedral Lake 7 or 8 years ago, while another person in our group hiked back down and brought the car around to Condundrum Creek for us. It took us a long time to descend to Cataract Creek and then a bunch more time to cross the creek and make it to the Conundrum Creek trail head so by the time we got back to the car the driver had been waiting for hours and was more than ready to get to Aspen for dinner.SoCool wrote:This advice is so unnerving that it sounds exaggerated, but it's probably notkaiman wrote:Steep, loose, unmaintained, faint, and not recommended.
"I want to keep the mountains clean of racism, religion and politics. In the mountains this should play no role."
- Joe Stettner
"I haven't climbed Everest, skied to the poles, or sailed single-handed around the world. The goals I set out to accomplish aren't easily measured or quantified by world records or "firsts." The reasons I climb, and the climbs I do, are about more than distance or altitude, they are about breaking barriers within myself."
- Andy Kirkpatrick
- Joe Stettner
"I haven't climbed Everest, skied to the poles, or sailed single-handed around the world. The goals I set out to accomplish aren't easily measured or quantified by world records or "firsts." The reasons I climb, and the climbs I do, are about more than distance or altitude, they are about breaking barriers within myself."
- Andy Kirkpatrick
