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OK - just to fill up this off season with some hopefully useful data - here's a chronicle of my trip to the Flattops. And I mean on the Flattops!
at Stillwater Reservoir
Didn't really have a plan - but the weather forecast was totally clear and a full moon was arising -- so I quickly decided to just go for a stay somewhere up on the Tops! Donkey'd way too much gear too - but worth it because most of that weight was just warm gear all of which i used to keep warm up there (no fire)
"the Colorado Savanna"
It was a strategic move to just avoid the Devils Causeway and focus on the main section of the Flattops - but I don't regret at all. That's one cool feature - but going up north would require more time than my one night out here would have allowed.
Savanna!
Looking South
Looking East
Camp
Camp II
Found myself below a little bump of a hill next to these two intermittent ponds for the night. BUT - no one alerted the local noctural bird population - for the first hour or two after dark I had repeated bird attacks at my head - I would eventually take up my small wooden sword for defense but luckily all parties went to bed (eventually) with no injuries.
I had plan to wake up and run over to Shingle Peak - but that was farfetched. Instead I took up a ridge south of camp - scoped out the scene - and began my retreat to Stillwater Res.
I think that's "Derby Peak over there
Final Look South
Furthest South of Journey - looking back north across "the Savanna"
Plus Large amounts of flowers for being August 2nd!
WRAP UP MAPS
Red circle = camp zone
Note the original goal of Shingle Peak in green circle - if I hadn't stayed up so late battling owls it may have been in play - but was a huge ass haul and there's a deeper valley there in between than I realized.
Thumbnails for uploaded photos (click to open slideshow):
you could take Shingle if better organized - or even just spend extra night out there to clean it all up.
Me? I'm now laser fosuced on hitting up two night ultra combo package out by Trapper Peak - with excursions to the Marvin Brothers
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