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| Report Type |
Full |
| Peak(s) |
Guadalupe Peak - 8751
Shumard Peak - 8615
Bartlett Peak - 8508
Bush Mountain - 8631
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| Date Posted |
03/17/2009 |
| Date Climbed |
01/26/2009 |
| Author |
hfd73 |
| Guadalupes |
I had been looking forward to going back to the Guads for a while. This time our plan was to climb the 4 highest peaks in Texas. Billy and I left Houston Monday morning. My dad, my brother Josh and friend Bay left Oklahoma, the plan to meet up at the Guads. We arrived about the same time 3:30PM MST, secured our permits and began hiking toward the Guadalupe Peak Campsite.. With the sun setting at 5:30MST we knew we needed to hurry. The hike along the trail was uneventful, but long, due to the heavy packs we were carrying 45 - 50lbs a piece(25lbs water). We were planning on staying 2 nights in the wilderness. We saw the usual sights along the way up the trail.
It got dark well before we reached the Guadalupe Peak campground. We saw some green eyes looking back at us. Couldn't tell what they were, but we didn't care... it was dinner time and we were all hungry. Set up camp had dinner, then it was bedtime.
We woke up to the best sunrise in Texas that day, or maybe even ever. We were above and below 2 cloud layers. It made for a perfect sunrise. We had breakfast, then broke down camp. The hike to Guadalupe Peak was better than I thought it would be. I thought it was going to be very unremarkable, but we saw a herd of bighorn sheep on the way up. We arrived at the summit, signed the log and had another snack. My brother Josh figured the wind chill to be 2 degrees F. It was pretty chilly. After a bit longer break than I thought we should have, we continued on with what everyone said was the hardest day of thier lives. This was probably due to all the gear we were carrying. It took forever to reach the saddle between Guadalupe and Shumard. At this point we actually considered decending down into Pine Springs Canyon and back to the cars. Don't do this!!!! We came to our senses and continued on. We summitted Shumard and took a short break. We definately did not eat enough this day.
We continued on, and we made the summit of Bartlett Peak just before the sun went down. I took the 2 tents and went on ahead to set up camp. The other guys caught up to me well after dark. Billy told me he knew know how the guys on Everest felt when they just sat down to die. He said he took a break on the way up to Bush camp, the wind was howling, it was bitter cold, he sat down and got very scared. He said he thought he might not get back up again. A little intestinal fortitude pushed him back on his feet and then he made it to camp.
We set up the tents, ate a bunch of food, and then proceeded to sleep for 12 hours. What a day!!!!!! If you decide to do this, RESEARCH, RESEARCH, RESEARCH welll!!!!!!!!!!!!
The next day we summitted Bush Mountain without any incidents, then picked up our packs and headed down the Tejas trail. What a great adventure.... I'm sure I left a lot out. Check out the pics on the youtube video. I don't like spending a lot of time talking about past adventures cuz i'm too busy looking forward to the next one! !! Hope to see you out there!!!
Jarrod Byrd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7gorNIL8W4
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