Split Rock - 3.18.2024
We parked at the trailhead for the Split Rock Loop... and this is the split rock.
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I'm not here to do the loop hike... I have left the parking lot and will head over to the rock slabs in the left-center of the photo.
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Nice slabs.
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I am ascending the slabs... and is the weather going to be an issue?... and a little later I will be scrambling up that rock formation over in the middle of the photo.
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A pano from the top of those slabs that were in earlier photos... there are two climber bolts in the bottom of the photo.
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Looking back at the parking lot for the Split Rock Loop.
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I'm going to head over to those slabs in the middle of the photo.
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Ascending nice slabs.
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Rugged looking terrain.
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I will leave the slabs and head over to the two massive rock formations on the far left horizon.
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Nearing those two massive rock formations from the previous photo.
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Heading up in between the massive rock formations from the previous two photos.
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I'm going to work my way over to the flat looking top of the rocks in the middle of the photo.
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I will hike out to the end of this cooridor to get up on the top of the flat rocks.
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Looking back at how I got over here... from the upper left and around to where I am standing now.
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A pano shot... with the Eagle Cliff on the horizon... and the parking lot is barely visible on the right.
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I'm going to head down and join the Split Rock Loop trail.
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Getting close to the Split Rock Loop Trail.
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Looking back at where I came down to join the trail.
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After hiking on the trail for a quarter-mile I have left the trail... with 'Tulip Rock' on the far left.
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Continuing to hike off trail.
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Continuing to hike off trail... looking over there at the back side of the 'Cling or Fling Cooridor'... so I will go through this narrow passage to get a closer look at the corridor.
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The back side of the 'Cling or Fling Cooridor'... Denali Girl and I went through the corridor in 2019 and afterwards we decided that we would not do it again.
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Leaving the corridor area.
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Hiking around the huge rock formation that houses the corridor... with the parking lot over there on the far left.
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I am on the front side of the 'Cling or Fling Cooridor... and going to head up that way.... but I will not do the corridor.
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Gaining elevation... but I will be going up on the right.
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Heading for that little gap up there in the middle of the photo.
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I have made it through the little gap and almost up to my high point.
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Looking back down at the little gap I just came through... and I can see the parking lot out there on the left.
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Getting ready to stand my high point for the day.
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On my high point (4415 feet) for the day... looking down at the parking lot.
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A pano shot from my high point.
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Down from my high point and heading for the car.
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A stone's throw from the parking lot... the hike was a total of 1.8 miles, gaining 307 feet of elevation.
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