Huron Peak Trip Report 07/22/2011

Report Type	Full
Peak(s)	Huron Peak - 14,006 feet
Date Posted	07/22/2011
Date Climbed	07/22/2011
Author	zoriloco

Wonderful day on Huron Peak
Hello everyone, So far this summer Ive been putting off my hiking to do some wheeling after some major modifications done on my Jeep. Well early this week my wife and i decided to take advantage of a day off we both had and headed out to Huron's Peak. We left Denver at around 6:30pm and after a quick bite to eat we were tackling the 4WD road up to the TH. Being this would be our first time up this trail we were a bit nervous driving up this route at around 10pm. Everything was well marked and we had no problems finding a good spot to park the Xterra and unfold our sleeping bags. We started hiking at 6am like i had mentioned and reached the summit at 9am. We were there for about 30min and got back to the car at noon. Driving up to Leadville Didnt quite know where the trail ended... al of a sudden I was facing the signs at the TH. Why hike when you can drive right..... lol Setting up camp lazy style Next morning we were to get up at 4:30am but it was nice and toasty inside the sleeping bags so we didnt start walking until 6am..... hehehe The views from our site This trail starts climbing right away There are lots of nice steps along the way We got our first glance at the 3 apostols After leaving treeline we got to this big opening, I really enjoyed this area. lots of water and flowers and finally some flatland Some nice snow fields Then the switchbacks started again Flowers everywhere We finally got to what we thought was the summit.... but not quite there yet... hahaha Still had about 10 more minutes of walking to do By 9am we were at the summit and as always I waved my Guatemalan Flag After that we pulled out a sandwich and some jalapenos to snack on. On our way back Some pictures of the 4WD trail PUddles a couple of inches deep

Wonderful day on Huron Peak

Hello everyone,

So far this summer Ive been putting off my hiking to do some wheeling after some major modifications done on my Jeep. Well early this week my wife and i decided to take advantage of a day off we both had and headed out to Huron's Peak.

We left Denver at around 6:30pm and after a quick bite to eat we were tackling the 4WD road up to the TH. Being this would be our first time up this trail we were a bit nervous driving up this route at around 10pm.

Everything was well marked and we had no problems finding a good spot to park the Xterra and unfold our sleeping bags. We started hiking at 6am like i had mentioned and reached the summit at 9am. We were there for about 30min and got back to the car at noon.

Driving up to Leadville

Didnt quite know where the trail ended... al of a sudden I was facing the signs at the TH. Why hike when you can drive right..... lol

Setting up camp lazy style

Next morning we were to get up at 4:30am but it was nice and toasty inside the sleeping bags so we didnt start walking until 6am..... hehehe

The views from our site

This trail starts climbing right away

There are lots of nice steps along the way

We got our first glance at the 3 apostols

After leaving treeline we got to this big opening, I really enjoyed this area. lots of water and flowers and finally some flatland

Some nice snow fields

Then the switchbacks started again

Flowers everywhere

We finally got to what we thought was the summit.... but not quite there yet... hahaha

Still had about 10 more minutes of walking to do

By 9am we were at the summit and as always I waved my Guatemalan Flag

After that we pulled out a sandwich and some jalapenos to snack on.

On our way back

Some pictures of the 4WD trail

PUddles a couple of inches deep

Comments or Questions

rickinco123	Are you two from Guatemala? 7/23/2011 6:24am The jalapeno snack is awesome! Looks like the flowers are pretty amazing this year.
zoriloco	Not both 7/23/2011 5:27pm My wife is from Mexico and yeah them jalapeno's do give it a nice touch..lol
Ceastar	4wd or high clearance 8/4/2011 4:01am Thanks for the report. I'm hoping to do this next Monday. Did you need the 4wd? Or, would a high clearance vehicle be enough do you think? Thanks, C
zoriloco	You're welcome. 8/4/2011 2:16pm Hight cleareance should get you there with no problems. I actually just went back there this past weekend and ran it in 2WD in my Jeep. I did see some Subaru's out up there that day too.
--Liz--	Nice trail 8/8/2011 9:12pm This is a great trail, I enjoyed the weather and of course great company...

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