Fortune Peak - 7.11.2011
Recon's GPS route for our trip to Fortune Peak and Lake Camp Fire Girls... ~7 miles roundtrip... gaining ~3200 feet of elevation.
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A google earth look at the Fortune Peak area.
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The ladies gearing up for the hike... from 29 Pines Campground, drive to the end (4200') of the North Fork Teanaway River Road.
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ragman showing BarbE and Snowdog the day's game plan.
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From the parking lot we started on the Esmeralda Basin Trail #1394.
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After hiking .4 miles there is a junction for Ingalls Way Trail #1390... but we won't take this trail... instead, staying on trail #1394 and continuing up Esmeralda Basin.
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As we gain elevation we got this view of the east end of Esmeralda Peaks.
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A pano shot of Esmeralda Peaks... east (left) to west (right).
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After hiking ~2.5 miles (before reaching the trail to Lake Ann) we left the trail and headed up.
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ragman, Denali Girl and larman... off trail and heading up... Esmeralda Peaks beyond.
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Patchy snow at ~6200 feet... the summit is somewhere high above on the left.
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Denali Girl ascending... the west end of Esmeralda Peaks (left) and Hawkins Mountain on the right.
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Continuing up... every step up leads to better views... looking across Fortune Creek Pass (center of photo)... Hawkins Mtn on the left... Davis Peak and Goat Mtn are the closest peaks beyond Hawkins.
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BarbE and Snowdog... Mt. Stuart comes into view over the east ridge of Fortune... still several hundred feet of elevation to go to reach the summit.
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Snowdog and BarbE continue up.
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BarbE, larman and Recon looking for the east ridge of Fortune Peak.
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Looking across the east ridge of Fortune to the Stuart Range... Three Brothers and Navaho Peak in the distance on the right.
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Denali Girl... with lots of Teanaway Peaks beyond.
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Finally on the east ridge of Fortune... and a look at the three summits of Ingalls Peak... with Jack Ridge on the right... Ingalls Lake is right-center.
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BarbE and Snowdog nearing the Fortune Peak summit.
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Looking down on Lake Camp Fire Girls (center) from high on the east ridge of Fortune Peak.
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Denali Girl high on the east ridge of Fortune... with the Stuart Range beyond.
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Group shot from the Fortune Peak summit (7382')... BarbE, Recon, Izzy (four legs) Snowdog, larman, Denali Girl and ragman.
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Ingalls Peak (left), Jack Ridge and Mt. Stuart.
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A closeup of Ingalls Peak... Cashmere Mountain in the distance on the right.
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Hawkins Mountain.
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Looking beyond Davis Peak and Goat Mtn to Snoqualmie Pass and Dutch Miller Peaks... Lake Ann in the lower right corner.
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Recon's photo of Scatter Peaks in the foreground... the twin summits on the right is The Cradle.
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Lake Ann has started to melt.
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Ingalls Lake below... with Jack Ridge and the Stuart Range.
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Looking at most of the Teanaway Peaks from the Fortune Peak summit.
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Looking across the west end of Esmeralda Peaks to Jolly Mtn... DeRoux Peak is the red one.
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Snowdog, Izzy and larman relaxing on the summit.
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Leaving the summit we will head down towards Headlight Basin.
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larman watches Denali Girl glissade down towards Headlight Basin.
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Ingalls Lake, Jack Ridge and Mt. Stuart as we descend towards Headlight Basin.
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After descending ~600 feet from the summit we are traversing over to one of the low points (~6800') on Fortune's east ridge.
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Snowdog and BarbE on Fortune's east ridge (~6800').
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The three summits of Ingalls Peak... and Ingalls Lake... Headlight Basin below.
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A closeup of Ingalls Lake from the east ridge of Fortune Peak.
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We will give back more elevation as we descend on the south side of the ridge between Fortune Peak and Ingalls Pass.
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larman, Denali Girl, Snowdog and Recon on the south side of the ridge between Fortune Peak and Ingalls Pass.
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ragman and Denali Girl descending.
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Heading for Lake Camp Fire Girls now... we came down from the low point on the ridge at right... Fortune Peak at the top of the photo.
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Still need to lose some elevation to get down to Lake Camp Fire Girls... looks kind of cliffy... however...
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Izzy and BarbE have found a way to get down to the lake.
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Denali Girl watches Recon get ready to glissade down to Lake Camp Fire Girls.
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Here comes Recon.
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Denali Girl finishes up her glissade to Lake Camp Fire Girls.
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Esmeralda Peaks (left) and Hawkins Mountain from Lake Camp Fire Girls.
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Continuing beyond Lake Camp Fire Girls... Fortune Peak is top-center in the photo.
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We will give back some more elevation on snow... and then angle over to Ingalls Pass (low point on ridge).
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Denali Girl and Recon heading for Ingalls Pass... Point 6878 (Not Hinkhouse) is in the center of the photo.
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Four ladies hanging out near Ingalls Pass.
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The troops relax at Ingalls Pass... a nice place to gaze at Mt. Stuart.
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The three summits of Ingalls Peak from Ingalls Pass.
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The Alpine Lakes Wilderness boundary at Ingalls Pass.
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Denali Girl leaving Ingalls Pass and looking for the trail.
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We lost the trail and had to get across this cliffy area before we found it again.
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Fortune Peak from the Ingalls Way Trail.
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Nice to be back on the trail again.
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The troops huddle at the junction with the Longs Pass Trail... Esmeralda Peaks beyond.
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The trail sign for Longs Pass... 2.4 miles of easy hiking will get us back to the car.
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Life is good!... this scramble was ~7 miles roundtrip... gaining ~3200 feet of elevation.
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