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It's been three years since I last summitted Mount Raymond, so yesterday I decided to give it a go and see if it is still in my wheelhouse. The approach was my usual one from the Bowman Fork Trail in Millcreek Canyon. Total miles on the hike was approximately 11.4 to the summit and back.
The wildflowers were special throughout. The Millcreek approach never lets you down this time of year.
Review Image:
Overview map
Getting a 7:00 am start
Upper Millcreek is closed due to consrtuction
So we had to walk the road up to the Terraces Picnic Area to reach the trailhead
We'll be taking the Bowman Fork Trail
Our destination - Mount Raymond
Richard's geranium in Bowman Fork
Typical of the hike through Bowman
Wild roses along the trail
Thimbleberry was plentiful
Entering the Mount Olympus Wilderness
I've been told mites are responsible (Rocky Mountain Maple Felt Mite)
Cow Parsnip
Heart-leafed arnica going to seed
Once out of Bowman Fork, you switch back up through a conifer forest
Typical of the trail through the forest
Showy Fleabane
I liked the look of these pinecones
Skyrockets
A visitor on some Showy Goldeneye
Diamond Clarkia
After White Fir Pass, you soon enter stands of aspen
Wyoming Paintbrush
Fireweed
Lupine
Columbine
Aspen Pea
Lupine and rosy paintbrush
Grandeur Peak across the canyon
Church Fork Peak across the canyon
Mount Aire across the canyon
A meadow of False Sunflowers
Mount Raymond comes into view again
In the center of the images is a Black-headed Grosbeak
Reached the intersection with the Alexander Basin cutoff trail
More aspen
Jacobs Ladder
Oh my!
A bull moose on the trail
The moose was eating rose shrubs by the trail. We had to wait about thirty minutes for it to leave the trail. I was beginning to think that we might not get to Raymond after all, but soon after it headed down into a gully.
Finally leaving the trail and dropping down into the gully
Bluebells
This columbine had faint blue leaves - Colorado Blue Columbine perhaps
Getting closer to Raymond
Wasatch Beardtounge
Climbing up the ridge from Baker Spring before traversing across the slope of Gobblers Knob
Our trail, heading diagonally up the slope of Gobblers towards Bakers Pass
Mount Raymond and some of Wildcat Ridge
Thirsty?
View down into Porter Fork
Approaching Baker Pass
Can you see the squirrel that was yacking at me?
View of Raymond from the pass
And a view up at Gobblers Knob from Baker Pass
Heading up the ridge towards Mount Raymond
Nice view of Mount Aire and unnamed peak 8490 across Millcreek Canyon. Beyond Aire is Big Mountain and East Canyon
Another look at Gobblers
View up Big Cottonwood Canyon (upper portion)
Monument Plant
Nice view of a portion of the Cottonwood Ridgeline to the south
Paintbrush on the ridge
The summit of Raymond comes into view (zoomed image)
But we still have a ways to go yet.
Great Basin Fritillary
@Rockskipper , did you forget your sunglasses?
Time for some scrambling
Scatman frst
Then Katie
Then Sheila
More scrambling
Clematis
Still a little more scrambling to go.
View back along the ridgeline
Almost there - view up at the summit
The summit
Indra Swallowtail
Wildcat Ridge. The summit of Mount Raymond is the official east end of Wildcat Ridge.
Katie, enjoying the views
Broads Fork Twin Peaks across Big Cottonwood Canyon
A true Pioneer - Lewis and Clark that is.
Sheila makes it to the summit. This was her first summit of Raymond
Anicia Checkerspot
USGS Reference Mark
Short ridge that extends to the southeast from the summit
Walking back from the end of that ridge
Stonecrop
For Skipper
Starting back down
Katie led the way
Back to the slope of Gobblers. Wildflowers were tremendous across the slope.
More beardtounge
Leaving Raymond behind
A beautiful wild rose
Baker Spring
Looking back up Gobblers Knob
Swallowtail on some Horsemint
Back in Bowman Fork and some Globemallow
View back at where we were
Back at the trailhead
Walk down the Terraces road to the Millcreek road
Back at the Sube
Of course, summiting Raymond can only mean one thing!
Nachos at the Porcupine!
Look at that.
And a Luna Negra Dark Mexican Lager to wash it all down with.
Happy Fourth everybody!
The End.
The wildflowers were special throughout. The Millcreek approach never lets you down this time of year.
Review Image:
Overview map
Getting a 7:00 am start
Upper Millcreek is closed due to consrtuction
So we had to walk the road up to the Terraces Picnic Area to reach the trailhead
We'll be taking the Bowman Fork Trail
Our destination - Mount Raymond
Richard's geranium in Bowman Fork
Typical of the hike through Bowman
Wild roses along the trail
Thimbleberry was plentiful
Entering the Mount Olympus Wilderness
I've been told mites are responsible (Rocky Mountain Maple Felt Mite)
Cow Parsnip
Heart-leafed arnica going to seed
Once out of Bowman Fork, you switch back up through a conifer forest
Typical of the trail through the forest
Showy Fleabane
I liked the look of these pinecones
Skyrockets
A visitor on some Showy Goldeneye
Diamond Clarkia
After White Fir Pass, you soon enter stands of aspen
Wyoming Paintbrush
Fireweed
Lupine
Columbine
Aspen Pea
Lupine and rosy paintbrush
Grandeur Peak across the canyon
Church Fork Peak across the canyon
Mount Aire across the canyon
A meadow of False Sunflowers
Mount Raymond comes into view again
In the center of the images is a Black-headed Grosbeak
Reached the intersection with the Alexander Basin cutoff trail
More aspen
Jacobs Ladder
Oh my!
A bull moose on the trail
The moose was eating rose shrubs by the trail. We had to wait about thirty minutes for it to leave the trail. I was beginning to think that we might not get to Raymond after all, but soon after it headed down into a gully.
Finally leaving the trail and dropping down into the gully
Bluebells
This columbine had faint blue leaves - Colorado Blue Columbine perhaps
Getting closer to Raymond
Wasatch Beardtounge
Climbing up the ridge from Baker Spring before traversing across the slope of Gobblers Knob
Our trail, heading diagonally up the slope of Gobblers towards Bakers Pass
Mount Raymond and some of Wildcat Ridge
Thirsty?
View down into Porter Fork
Approaching Baker Pass
Can you see the squirrel that was yacking at me?
View of Raymond from the pass
And a view up at Gobblers Knob from Baker Pass
Heading up the ridge towards Mount Raymond
Nice view of Mount Aire and unnamed peak 8490 across Millcreek Canyon. Beyond Aire is Big Mountain and East Canyon
Another look at Gobblers
View up Big Cottonwood Canyon (upper portion)
Monument Plant
Nice view of a portion of the Cottonwood Ridgeline to the south
Paintbrush on the ridge
The summit of Raymond comes into view (zoomed image)
But we still have a ways to go yet.
Great Basin Fritillary
@Rockskipper , did you forget your sunglasses?
Time for some scrambling
Scatman frst
Then Katie
Then Sheila
More scrambling
Clematis
Still a little more scrambling to go.
View back along the ridgeline
Almost there - view up at the summit
The summit
Indra Swallowtail
Wildcat Ridge. The summit of Mount Raymond is the official east end of Wildcat Ridge.
Katie, enjoying the views
Broads Fork Twin Peaks across Big Cottonwood Canyon
A true Pioneer - Lewis and Clark that is.
Sheila makes it to the summit. This was her first summit of Raymond
Anicia Checkerspot
USGS Reference Mark
Short ridge that extends to the southeast from the summit
Walking back from the end of that ridge
Stonecrop
For Skipper
Starting back down
Katie led the way
Back to the slope of Gobblers. Wildflowers were tremendous across the slope.
More beardtounge
Leaving Raymond behind
A beautiful wild rose
Baker Spring
Looking back up Gobblers Knob
Swallowtail on some Horsemint
Back in Bowman Fork and some Globemallow
View back at where we were
Back at the trailhead
Walk down the Terraces road to the Millcreek road
Back at the Sube
Of course, summiting Raymond can only mean one thing!
Nachos at the Porcupine!
Look at that.
And a Luna Negra Dark Mexican Lager to wash it all down with.
Happy Fourth everybody!
The End.
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