9/22/2011 Route: Via Mt. Belford Posted On: 9/24/2011, By: byteman Info: Trail from TH up to Bedford in peak condition. Low water, relatively dry trail near creek sections heading up Missouri Gulch. Once on the mountain, Beford trail has to be the best maintained I've ever encountered on a 14er. Traverse to Oxford a bit slick in spots with some mud; more care needed here on the climb down from Bedford to the saddle. Skirted Bedford on the way back and headed over to Elkhead Pass and Missouri Mountain trail. Conditions here were also excellent. Get out there and steal some late-season 14ers! |
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8/28/2011 Route: Via Mt. Belford Posted On: 8/29/2011, By: RockyMountainMustang Info: Trail to Oxford from Belford is clear and in great shape. Be sure to give yourself plenty of time to get back up Belford again. It was starting to sprinkle as I was coming down, and there were still a lot of people no doubt stuck up in the saddle or on one of the two summits when I started seeing lightning hit nearby. NOTE: Missouri Gulch TH is REALLY hard to see at night, the sign is tucked away in the aspens on the left side of the road coming in from 24. If you drove past the Vicksburg Museum sign, you just went past it, so make a u-turn and the TH will be on the right, after the wooden fence. Otherwise, the turn off looks no different from a campsite. Pic 1 = easy to see by day, impossible to see at night TH sign. Pic 2 = Oxford from Belford Summit Pic 3 = start of saddle trail Pic 4 = Belford from Oxford Summit |
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8/2/2011 Route: Via Mt. Belford Posted On: 8/3/2011, By: mrschaible Info: Route is clear and dry to summit! |
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5/28/2011 Route: Via Mt. Belford Posted On: 5/29/2011, By: thatstite Info: Once you get to the saddle between Oxford and Belford its almost snow free all the way to the summit. Getting to the saddle requires a little more post-holing but we were fine without snowshoes which we left at the base of Belford. |