Three Needles & T10
Date: 07/07/2023
Partner: Solo
Trialhead: Porphyry Basin
Summits: Three Needles & T10
Distance: 5 miles
Elevation Gain: 2700ft
Duration: 4.25 hours
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Three Needles 14ers Page
T10 14ers Page
A gorgeous quick hit outside of Silverton. There was plenty of loose rock on this one
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5m - 2700ft - 4.25 hours
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Cool little waterfall on the hike into the upper basin
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Ski tracks across Bullion King Lake
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Porphyry Lake and Three Needles
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Going up there!
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Looking across Porphyry Lake to T10
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Blue Lake from Three Needle's south ridge
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A view down Three Needle's south ridge
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Getting close to the summit
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The final scramble to the summit
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Summit views of the next objective... T10. I would gain the ridge on the left and scramble across the ridge to the right
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Three Needles south ridge
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Yankee Boy views to the north
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Three Needles summit selfie
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Looking down to Blue Lake
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Three Needles south ridge. I would go left through the notch and down a loose slope
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Not the best decent
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Looking back to Three Needles
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Looking ahead to the tedious terrain to T10's north ridge
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Another view of Three Needles
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T10's spicy summit ridge
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Looking to Three Needles from T10's ridge
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Looking back across the T10 ridge. The closer to T10s summit the more exposed and loose rock
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Looking down T10's east ridge from the summit
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Looking back to T10 on descent
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Three Needles (L) - T10 (R)
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Back to the truck on the Porphyry Lake Road.
