Judy's Peak, Mary's Peak and Bean Peak - 11.3.2010
GPS route for Judy's Peak and Mary's Peak... and our general route from Mary's Peak over to Bean Peak... ~8 miles roundtrip, gaining ~3800 feet of elevation.
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Park at the Beverly Turnpike trailhead (3600').
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After hiking the Beverly Turnpike Trail for .5 miles, take the Bean Creek Trail... BarbE already looks tired.
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iraman crossing Bean Creek.
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The first avalanche chute... in another .25 miles we will leave the trail (~4600') after the first switchback and head uphill for the east ridge of Judy's Peak.
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Mt. Rainier comes into view as we gain elevation.
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iraman scrambling on a rock outcropping as we head for the east ridge of Judy's Peak.
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Ever upward.
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iraman got this shot of BarbE framing a lagging ragman.
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BarbE and iraman a few hundred feet below the east ridge of Judy's Peak... Judy's Peak in the distance.
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BarbE leans into the hill side while iraman rests.
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Earl Peak between the goal posts.
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iraman and BarbE are almost on the east ridge of Judy's Peak... sure hope the views of the Stuart Range will be good from there.
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Bean Peak (orange) and part of the Stuart Range from the east ridge of Judy's Peak... Bean Creek Basin below.
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iraman and ragman on the east ridge (~6280') of Judy's Peak... Mt. Stuart in the distance on the right.
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Earl Peak from the east ridge of Judy's Peak.
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Judy's Peak on the left and Mary's Peak on the right.
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BarbE heading along the ridge toward Judy's Peak.
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BarbE and iraman heading for Judy's Peak.
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BarbE leads the way to Judy's Peak.
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BarbE on the Judy's Peak summit (6560+)... Bill's Peak on the left... Mary's Peak above Barb... Bean Peak on the right... the Stuart Range beyond.
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Mary's Peak is blocking Mt. Stuart and Sherpa Peak... with Bill's Peak on the left... and Argonaut Peak on the right.
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BarbE on the ridge between Judy's Peak and Mary's Peak.
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ragman's better side... with Mary's Peak in the distance.
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BarbE and iraman on the ridge and heading for Mary's Peak.
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BarbE and iraman on the ridge and heading for Mary's Peak.
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Still on the ridge heading for Mary's Peak... the summit is beyond the rock outcropping at the top of the photo.
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iraman and BarbE nearing the rock outcropping.
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Beyond the rock outcropping now... with clear sailing to the Mary's Peak summit in the distance.
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iraman and BarbE on the Mary's Peak summit (6680').
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Pano shot of the Stuart Range from Mary's Peak... Bean Peak on the far right.
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Foreground peaks are Iron (left), Gene's (center) and Bill's (right).
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Lunch on Mary's Peak... looking back at Judy's Peak and our route along the ridge.
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We will give back 600 feet of elevation as we leave Mary's Peak and head for Bean Peak... Earl Peak in the distance.
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BarbE takes a break below Mary's Peak.
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Time to start gaining elevation again as we head for Bean Peak.
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This photo was taken from Judy's Peak and shows our general route to the Bean Peak summit.
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iraman and BarbE looking for the best route to the Bean Peak summit.
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We were tired of breaking through the snow and happy to get on the rock.
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iraman and BarbE on rock and heading for the summit.
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BarbE showing iraman some technique.
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ragman and BarbE nearing the Bean Peak summit.
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iraman dancing on the Bean Peak summit... and BarbE is close.
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Group shot on the Bean Peak summit (6743').
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Bill's Peak (far left)... then Fortune and Ingalls... looking through the gap to Harding, Cradle and Nursery... Stuart and Sherpa on the far right.
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Pano shot of the Stuart Range from Bean Peak... Volcanic Neck and Devils Head in the foreground.
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A closeup of Volcanic Neck.
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From Bean Peak we are looking at our general route along the ridge to Judy's Peak and Mary's Peak... then down from Mary's and back up to Bean.
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BarbE and iraman leaving the Bean Peak summit.
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Continuing down from the Bean Peak summit.
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Still heading down on good rock.
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ragman observing.
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Very steep in this section...
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but the hand and foot holds were excellent.
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BarbE and iraman... with Earl Peak in the distance.
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ragman tagging along.
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iraman is off of the rock and back on the snow.
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iraman heading down to Bean Creek Basin.
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BarbE and ragman on the way down to Bean Creek Basin... Bean Peak above.
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Bean Peak from Bean Creek Basin... ~3 miles to get back to the car.
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