2021-04-12, 09:02 PM
Just came back from a week in the valley today. It was damned hot down low, so we commuted up to the pinyon / juniper forest each day. Bald peak (via Wood Canyon), Wildrose, Colville Ridge. Considered trying to get to Morning Glory from the Wildrose trail as you suggest but doing 2K back up late in the day was not very attractive so we did not.
We did go out the ridge that forms the south wall of Trail. We left the Wildrose trail at 7800 ft and contoured the south side of 8285. Our goal was to reach point 7913, but we did not get all the way out the ridge. Its a tough walk, though the forest is charming, we had to cross 5 mostly stable scree fields and then there's a spot on the ridge which would have involved a bit more scrambling than we were up for. But we still got to an really excellent on the ridge with great views.
Including in to Trail. The slope you are interested in looked passable but steep. I believe your caltopo link turned on slope angle shading - I have become quite a fan of this feature for off route hikes in open forest. On our level stretch we had to add a bunch of distance just from deviating from the route to get through trees and the dreaded cliffrose, and finding the best routes through the scree, so we were moving quite slowly overall.
I will check to see if I got a decent pic of that slope.
We did go out the ridge that forms the south wall of Trail. We left the Wildrose trail at 7800 ft and contoured the south side of 8285. Our goal was to reach point 7913, but we did not get all the way out the ridge. Its a tough walk, though the forest is charming, we had to cross 5 mostly stable scree fields and then there's a spot on the ridge which would have involved a bit more scrambling than we were up for. But we still got to an really excellent on the ridge with great views.
Including in to Trail. The slope you are interested in looked passable but steep. I believe your caltopo link turned on slope angle shading - I have become quite a fan of this feature for off route hikes in open forest. On our level stretch we had to add a bunch of distance just from deviating from the route to get through trees and the dreaded cliffrose, and finding the best routes through the scree, so we were moving quite slowly overall.
I will check to see if I got a decent pic of that slope.