Adams Family

The Adams Family - Class 4

Kristi and I have climbed Mount Adams twice now. The lions share of the images in this gallery are from our July 2020 trip however there are a few from August 2015.

Date: 07/01/2020
Partner: Kristi Henes
TH: Willow Creek
Summits: PT13541, PT13517B, 13580A, Mt. Adams, PT13153, PT13546
Miles: 21
Vertical: 7770
Difficulty: Class 4
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The Adams Family!!! The ridge across (NE) from Kit Carson and Challenger offers high quality class 3 & 4 scrambling, fun route finding and world class views. Not to mention a great route to knock off 5+ peaks in a single day. We traversed south to north and added PT13546 at the end for good measure.

As an extra bonus we ran into Natalie(aka Snow Alien) on the hike back to the TH. Turns out she did the same traverse we did except from north to south :-)

Date: 8/24/2015
Partner: Kristi Henes
TH: Willow Creek
Miles: 15.7
Vertical: 9050ft
Difficulty: Class 3
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From the town of Crestone we drove to the Willow Trailhead and hiked just under 5 miles to Willow Lake and setup camp. That night we took a sunset canoe cruise on Willow Lake. The next day we climbed Adams and Challenger. We decided against Kit Carson given weather. Good thing as it stormed on the way down. We camped that night and hiked back to the Willow Trailhead in the morning to find my truck had been broken into. Nothing stolen... as it was empty... but a $500 window was busted. Not so much fun.

Mt. Adams 14ers.com Page
PT13580A 14ers.com Page
PT13541 14ers.com Page
PT13517B 14ers.com Page
PT13153 14ers.com Page
PT13153 14ers.com Page

Kit Carson & Challenger