Little Cottonwood Canyon hiking: Catherine Pass to Grizzly Gulch July 2007

[Tyler]

This was a great hike and one I'd suggest to anyone. We went up Little Cottonwood Canyon all the way to the Alta ski resort and parked a little past the fire station. From there we rode a shuttle bus up another 2.5 miles on a dirt road to the Catherine Pass trail head and proceeded with our 6+ mile hike up over Catherine Pass to the Brighton resort side of the mountain. We then hiked on past a few lakes (Catherine, Martha, Mary) then worked our way over toward Twin Lakes, which is near ski lifts for the Milicent area of Brighton. After that we worked our way along the far side of Twin Lakes and up over into Grizzly gulch and back down to the parking area. It has been a long time since we've done a day hike this long so it was quite nice despite the fact that I'm extremely out of shape and kept slowing Alene down. She's so amazing and fit.

Above Lake Catherine



Looking down on lake Martha with Lake Mary in the background



The area was littered with wild flowers (this was in late July)



Looking down on Lake Mary



Alene at Lake Mary (nice LEGS!)



Looking down at the Brighton Ski Resort





An old cabin up off the trail



Looking back at Millicent



Alene at Twin Lakes



The trail going up and over to Grizzly Gulch



A lot of old mining equipment in Grizzly Gulch







I found the wire cable from "Lost"

 

[Nick]

Sweet. And here's my usual line about The Wasatch canyons. How can I live here and never hiked up there!? SLC locals: invite me to come with sometime this year!

 

[Yvonne]

I want to do one or two hikes in the Wasatch in mid June. Not sure which ones, but Catherine Pass sounds good.