Axis Peak - 10.8.2009
rodman's GPS route of our trip to Axis Peak... 11.2 miles roundtrip, gaining 4297 feet of elevation.
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Find the Stuart Lake trailhead by driving the Icicle Creek road for 8.5 miles... turn left on FS 7601 and drive 4 miles to the trailhead at end of the road (3400').
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At 4.5 miles we reached Stuart Lake (5064')... with reflections of Mountaineer Ridge, Mt. Stuart and Jack Ridge.
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Steam on Stuart Lake.
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rodman above Stuart Lake... we left the lake at the only boulder field that reaches the lake from Axis Peak.
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Mountaineer Ridge, Mt. Stuart and part of Jack Ridge as we gain elevation above Stuart Lake.
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larman and rodman on steep terrain.
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Still gaining elevation... with a full view of the peninsula at the west end of Stuart Lake.
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larman and rodman near a rock outcropping at 5600 feet... where we will make a mistake by going to the left and having to deal with a nasty 50 foot section of Slide Alder.
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larman and rodman are still on steep terrain.
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We still can't see the summit... but it is up there somewhere.
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Continuing up on steep terrain.
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Looking west across Jack Ridge... giving a better perspective of the steepness of the terrain.
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rodman and larman on the Axis Peak summit (7550').
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ragman on the Axis Peak summit... with Cashmere Mtn in the distance.
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The north side of Axis Peak.
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Looking across Mountaineer Ridge to Sherpa Peak and Mt. Stuart.
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A pano shot of the Stuart Range and Jack Ridge.
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Looking down on Eightmile Lake... with Cashmere Mtn above.
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Hi-Jack Peak (Pt. 7828 on Jack Ridge) on the left and Eightmile Mtn on the right.
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A closeup of Cashmere Mtn.
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A closeup... looking across Jack Ridge to Mt. Daniel.
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A closeup of Aasgard Pass, Dragontail Peak and Colchuck Peak.
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A closeup of Argonaut Peak.
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A closeup of Sherpa Peak.
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I scrambled over to the first bump east of the summit and got this shot of larman and rodman on the Axis Peak summit.
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A closeup of Colchuck Lake and the lower part of the route to Aasgard Pass.
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rodman and larman in the gully we used to get back down to Stuart Lake.
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Dragontail Peak and Colchuck Peak... we are almost back to Stuart Lake.
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From Stuart Lake this was our route up to and down from Axis Peak... if we do it again, we will use the down route going up and coming down.
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