Sleeping Sexton to Buckskin
Date: 08/31/2022
Partner: Heather Ryan
Trailhead: Maroon Lake
Summits: Sleeping Sexton, PT13039, Buckskin BM
Distance: 12.1m
Elevation Gain: 5800ft
Duration: 10hrs 45min
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A great day of moderate scrambling and off the hook views
Sleeping Sexton 14ers.com Page
PT13039 14ers.com Page
Buckskin BM 14ers.com Page
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12.1m - 5800ft - 10hrs 45min
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The Bells and Sleeping Sexton on approach
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North Maroon's north face - A 50 Classics ski line
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Leaving the trail and heading to Sleeping Sexton's east ridge
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The Chicken points to Buckskin BM which would be our final peak for the day
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Buckskin BM
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North Maroon's north face
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Oh hello Capitol
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Sleeping Sexton's east ridge
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North Maroon in your face!
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From the top of the east ridge we dropped SW, descended and navigated to the famous (and much exaggerated) secret ledge
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Across the secret ledge
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plenty of room
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The summit from the ledge
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Close to the summit... the high point behind is where the east ridge terminated
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Heather hunks with the Bells
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Heading back to the secret ledge from the summit
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If you look closely you can see me in my blue jacket crossing the ledge
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Ledge crossed... summit behind
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On to PT13039
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I found this fully intact marmot skeleton on the way!
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There was a small amount of spicy down climbing on PT13039's north ridge
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Looking back to PT13039 en-route to Buckskin BM. The trail in this image is Buckskin Pass
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The last pitch to Buckskin BM
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Buckskin BM summit views
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PT13020B and PT13336 from Buckskin BM
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uh... yeah
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The Bells and Sleeping Sexton - Belleview in the distance on the right - Golden Tops and Precarious on the left
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PT13020B and PT13336 from Buckskin
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Soak this up while you can
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From the base of Buckskin we dropped east and picked up a trail
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Pyramid
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A great spot to soak the feet before descending to Crater Lake and back to the TH
