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Also because of great views from the top of the ridge. But yeah; the pictures of the slope I'd have to scramble over look less appealing than the lines on the topo did.

Peak 13,263 is usually called "Gunsight Peak"--although as you mention, that name is unofficial. http://www.summitpost.org/gunsight-peak/152297

I've always thought that the start at 191 and the end at Mirror Lake Hwy was kind of arbitrary. If you look at satellite imagery of the Uintas (as on Google Earth) you'll easily see that from Leidy Peak to somewhere quite a bit west of Mirror Lake has a uniform appearance and character while...

Ugh. That looks steeper in real life than it does on the topo.

You'll have to call the rangers at both parks as it gets closer, but from everything I've been hearing, almost the entire Rocky Mountain area has way below average snowfall this year. You may be able to do a lot of things that early that normally you can't do until several weeks later. Of...

I'm thinking from the topo that just to the north of Ostler Peak, in that "bight" in the mountain just south of Ostler Lake, that it would probably be pretty easy to crest that ridge and get to Middle Basin without having to go all the way around on the trail. Has anyone done this, and if so...