Engineer Pass Peaks
Date: 10/14/2022
Partner: Kristi Henes
Trailhead: Wildhorse Pack Trail (just below and east of Engineer Pass)
Summits:
* Blackwall Mountain
* PT12913
* Wildhorse Peak
* Cow BM
* PT13,132
* Darley Mountain
* Engineer Mountain
Distance: 17m
Elevation Gain:5700 ft
Duration: 10hrs 50min
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An incredibly scenic hike on gentle terrain in an expansive zone. Might have to go back for Dragon's Back!
Blackwall 14ers.com Page
Wildhorse 14ers.com Page
Cow BM 14ers.com Page
PT13132 14ers.com Page
Darley 14ers.com Page
Engineer 14ers.com Page
17m - 5700ft - 10hrs 50min
Walking north towards Wildhorse and Blackwall in the morning light
Hello Darley... we will see you in a few hours
Walking by Wildhorse en-route to Blackwall
Dragon's Back! Felt a little bad about not climbing this one
Blackwall (L) and Dragon's Back. Wetterhorn and friends in the distance
Blackwall with Coxcomb in the distance
Can't get enough of Dragon's Back
Looking west to Sneffels and the Yankee Boy peaks
Kristi tops out on Blackwall with Dragon's Back behind her
Blackwall summit selfie with Wetterhorn behind
Coxcomb and Redcliff from Blackwall
Next stop Wildhorse over PT12913
Descending Blackwall
The loose ridge that is PT12913's summit
Wildhorse... We hiked to the saddle on the left of the summit wall
Northeast views from the Wildhorse saddle
Kristi below Wildhorse's impressive east wall
Approaching Wildhorse's summit
Wildhorse's summit
Summit skull
After descending Wildhorse's surfy southern slopes we headed west to Cow BM
En-route to Cow
Cow off in the distance
Yankeeboy views from Cow
Coxcomb(R) and Redcliff
After Cow the next stop was PT13132
PT13132(R) and Darley(L)
PT13132's tedious east ridge
Looking back to Cow from PT13132
Darley from PT13132.
Darley... we climbed the north ridge then wrapped around on the right side of the summit block and summitted from the south
Kristi on Darley's north ridge
From Darley's summit we walked the south ridge for a bit then surfed the western slopes and headed to Engineer
Kristi on Engineer's north ridge for the final summit of the day. Darley behind