Engineer Pass 13ers
Date: 10/14/2022
Partner: Kristi Henes
Trailhead: Wildhorse Pack Trail (just below and east of Engineer Pass)
Summits:
* Blackwall Mountain
* PT12916
* Wildhorse Peak
* Cow BM
* PT13,140 aka ST Bear Creek Benchmark
* 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
PT12916 LoJ Page
Wildhorse 14ers.com Page
Cow BM 14ers.com Page
PT13140 14ers.com Page
Darley 14ers.com Page
Engineer 14ers.com Page
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17m - 5700ft - 10hrs 50min
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Walking north towards Wildhorse and Blackwall in the morning light
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Hello Darley... we will see you in a few hours
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Walking by Wildhorse en-route to Blackwall
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Dragon's Back! Felt a little bad about not climbing this one
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Blackwall (L) and Dragon's Back. Wetterhorn and friends in the distance
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Blackwall with Coxcomb in the distance
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Can't get enough of Dragon's Back
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Looking west to Sneffels and the Yankee Boy peaks
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Kristi tops out on Blackwall with Dragon's Back behind her
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Blackwall summit selfie with Wetterhorn behind
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Coxcomb and Redcliff from Blackwall
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Next stop Wildhorse over PT12916
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Descending Blackwall
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The loose ridge that is PT12916's summit
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Wildhorse... We hiked to the saddle on the left of the summit wall
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Northeast views from the Wildhorse saddle
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Kristi below Wildhorse's impressive east wall
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Approaching Wildhorse's summit
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Wildhorse's summit
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Summit skull
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After descending Wildhorse's surfy southern slopes we headed west to Cow BM
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En-route to Cow
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Cow off in the distance
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Yankeeboy views from Cow
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Coxcomb(R) and Redcliff
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After Cow the next stop was PT13140
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PT13140(R) and Darley(L)
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PT13140's tedious east ridge
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Looking back to Cow from PT13140
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Darley from PT13140.
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Darley... we climbed the north ridge then wrapped around on the right side of the summit block and summitted from the south
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Kristi on Darley's north ridge
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From Darley's summit we walked the south ridge for a bit then surfed the western slopes and headed to Engineer
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Kristi on Engineer's north ridge for the final summit of the day. Darley behind
