John Morrow
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Quick and dirty beta:
![ZionScrambles.jpg ZionScrambles.jpg](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69990-ac607c64f0022d162ef4ed6779ba26e6.jpg)
Nov 9: Zion east side traverse from Lost Peak, through the Triplets, to The Fin in a nice loop:
North Ridge of Lost Peak is fine Class 2 with 10 feet of Class 3. Combined with the west to east traverse of the Triplets and The Fin. I should have descended the SE Ridge after seeing it from Triplet 1. Couldn't see over slight bulges from the summit but goes Class 2 according to Courtney Purcell Guidebook and how it looked from what I can see.
![DSC03423.JPG DSC03423.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69991-048dcb30af7d0bd2f649bd440455a8d3.jpg)
![DSC03425.JPG DSC03425.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69992-e9fb2d256613cfef06b1144aa012462b.jpg)
![DSC03427.JPG DSC03427.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69993-911ebf29ccb6336d5062331252ae93f6.jpg)
![DSC03428.JPG DSC03428.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69994-6215598648bf8853f4adacf557529b61.jpg)
Then over the Class 4 West to East traverse of the Triplets. After Lost Peak ascended NW gully and rib of Triplet 1. Tagged the westernmost little thing. Easy to descend to saddle with 2nd Triplet. Then it got interesting. 15 feet of Class 4 on SW side of Triplet 2. Easy down east ridge to triplet 3 saddle, then more Class 4 (15 foot face) to top of Triplet 3. For anyone wanting the highest Triplet (3) the NE Ridge is Class 2 from the Fin saddle, which I descended.
![DSC03437.JPG DSC03437.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69995-a75b5c0cd77baaeda97fd1d6af36eac9.jpg)
![DSC03440.JPG DSC03440.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69996-341797aa5b091dc9b8c6177a3ce705c1.jpg)
Class 4 step:
![DSC03441.JPG DSC03441.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69997-476366f946b57f9a4eab2318fa333b0e.jpg)
![DSC03442.JPG DSC03442.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69998-86f6fc85f7a552718dae7497738f4a77.jpg)
Finally, I finished with the North Ridge of The Fin. Very solid rock with a bit of exposed Class 3 in two spots (pics).
![DSC03444.JPG DSC03444.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69999-f34c477b7c0995c9d4d2094f51f22fab.jpg)
![DSC03448.JPG DSC03448.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70000-2d0a22c2f7e5bba9a6ff1e8d748277b8.jpg)
![DSC03453.JPG DSC03453.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70001-d69b8c1c91897484ec02e3ca50ba700b.jpg)
![DSC03462.JPG DSC03462.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70002-4ac63f74de15c7c671760c828d77ba34.jpg)
Nov 10: Trail hike to Observation Point then a couple pathetic Courtney Purcell bumps, one with a BM (Observation BM), and one with 350 feet of prominence (Blew By Peak). Great views. The peaks were really an excuse to repeat the East Rim Trail which have been a favorite of mine since my first visit in the late 1980s.
![DSC03465.JPG DSC03465.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70003-e5821fb1a131cc08f20fa2641dc0b45a.jpg)
![DSC03472.JPG DSC03472.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70004-a2097fe35f03947510c21103e21759e0.jpg)
![DSC03473.JPG DSC03473.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70005-490a1932dd96d415dc51f80502f523f5.jpg)
![DSC03475.JPG DSC03475.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70006-2034dc8823602c832b2d414672d8c056.jpg)
![DSC03479.JPG DSC03479.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70007-e698b8d4dd0033840fbb493f932ec93c.jpg)
![DSC03483.JPG DSC03483.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70008-1e5b2582bc6a5192156b06d80ff89315.jpg)
![DSC03485.JPG DSC03485.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70009-afc5981728249f48163f7b229db2139a.jpg)
![DSC03488.JPG DSC03488.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70010-defce1b3927b3730b264cadd43ad918f.jpg)
Nov 11: This was a great day of slickrock peak bagging and scrambling. Little bumps that are in the Courtney Purcell Zion Summits Guidebook, but aesthetic as all get out as far as scrambling goes. From Canyon Overlook TH at the tunnel of the east side: Overlook to Shelf Point to Bighorn Peak to Mind's Eye to Progeny Peak. All Class 2, lotsa sustained, and the south ridge of Mind's Eye Class 3 if remaining directly on the crest (avoidable on SE slope).
Big slabs above Canyon Overlook to Shelf Point. Then a fine descending traverse northward below The East Temple to the SW ridge of Bighorn Peak.
![DSC03494.JPG DSC03494.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70016-4c16994210bb30426e0f2ac8226cc51b.jpg)
![DSC03497.JPG DSC03497.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70017-34863b47252de6684691cc8d198c5503.jpg)
![DSC03501.JPG DSC03501.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70018-d91df46ef955443db2b49b4a8b9e6a50.jpg)
![DSC03508.JPG DSC03508.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70019-a4b810b3c51acae2d5771e3d3b1cdcc7.jpg)
![DSC03509.JPG DSC03509.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70020-c054bc1bb6c7b96933117daf45327acc.jpg)
![DSC03515.JPG DSC03515.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70021-d02f8f787f83dd99a4568fdc14ef7254.jpg)
![DSC03519.JPG DSC03519.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70022-3c812e3c74b952e85775cb5b4e789de1.jpg)
![DSC03521.JPG DSC03521.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70023-cdb78f3b9c0fd0ba6692a9704eed6a4e.jpg)
Down the North Ridge Bighorn Peak to upper NW Fork of Pine Creek, found the petroglyphs!
![DSC03535.JPG DSC03535.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70024-4e81dc0a091ecc48f8a0df5c5930c7cb.jpg)
![DSC03537.JPG DSC03537.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70025-c0ae1c4a43c56b1ff2f43e27b387b08a.jpg)
![DSC03540.JPG DSC03540.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70026-c9608ca9fcc19e902d36d92cdea1110a.jpg)
![DSC03541.JPG DSC03541.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70027-0a56d18393e329f0c7aeb0ef60ea55e4.jpg)
Up the North Ridge of Mind's Eye and down the South Ridge back to the highway parking.
![DSC03551.JPG DSC03551.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70028-a21f2268a75a3e6bd216c03c064348c0.jpg)
![DSC03555.JPG DSC03555.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70029-7789c9748c5e67eb8854c96923586f7a.jpg)
Cross Pine Creek on the road bridge and up the fine slickrock bowl of the SW slope of Progeny Peak
![DSC03558.JPG DSC03558.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70030-f42be8706b2ec83832820bbc82fe7d64.jpg)
![DSC03564.JPG DSC03564.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70031-08bfb8cb1c072ad9d63fdac8dce4cbfe.jpg)
![DSC03565.JPG DSC03565.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70032-45f261cc2b43547cd09902d356a3fb7c.jpg)
![DSC03573.JPG DSC03573.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70033-dc9dc7196b8f0eb20aa13e7a2fd165cb.jpg)
Great day, great location, great stuff.
Nov 12: A quick jaunt up NE slope of Lee Peak above the Lee Pass TH in the Kolob Region and a short walk out to the Timber Creek Overlook.
![LeePeak.jpg LeePeak.jpg](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70034-7dd15d34fc2bff32d418fae8855f856d.jpg)
![DSC03586.JPG DSC03586.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70011-235602877a2b85fe6c5aa75547fffd5b.jpg)
![DSC03588.JPG DSC03588.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70012-c6dc263f21f93c2a2af5800b5ea3b3bf.jpg)
![DSC03592.JPG DSC03592.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70013-915b2708a2eba7d9bc9d88a0d59d98f7.jpg)
![DSC03604.JPG DSC03604.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70014-6ee49c6d5f4bea3ebe36140e82c09d56.jpg)
![DSC03610.JPG DSC03610.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70015-eb93d9edd98b966969fe6acf06c90171.jpg)
![ZionScrambles.jpg ZionScrambles.jpg](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69990-ac607c64f0022d162ef4ed6779ba26e6.jpg)
Nov 9: Zion east side traverse from Lost Peak, through the Triplets, to The Fin in a nice loop:
North Ridge of Lost Peak is fine Class 2 with 10 feet of Class 3. Combined with the west to east traverse of the Triplets and The Fin. I should have descended the SE Ridge after seeing it from Triplet 1. Couldn't see over slight bulges from the summit but goes Class 2 according to Courtney Purcell Guidebook and how it looked from what I can see.
![DSC03423.JPG DSC03423.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69991-048dcb30af7d0bd2f649bd440455a8d3.jpg)
![DSC03425.JPG DSC03425.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69992-e9fb2d256613cfef06b1144aa012462b.jpg)
![DSC03427.JPG DSC03427.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69993-911ebf29ccb6336d5062331252ae93f6.jpg)
![DSC03428.JPG DSC03428.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69994-6215598648bf8853f4adacf557529b61.jpg)
Then over the Class 4 West to East traverse of the Triplets. After Lost Peak ascended NW gully and rib of Triplet 1. Tagged the westernmost little thing. Easy to descend to saddle with 2nd Triplet. Then it got interesting. 15 feet of Class 4 on SW side of Triplet 2. Easy down east ridge to triplet 3 saddle, then more Class 4 (15 foot face) to top of Triplet 3. For anyone wanting the highest Triplet (3) the NE Ridge is Class 2 from the Fin saddle, which I descended.
![DSC03437.JPG DSC03437.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69995-a75b5c0cd77baaeda97fd1d6af36eac9.jpg)
![DSC03440.JPG DSC03440.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69996-341797aa5b091dc9b8c6177a3ce705c1.jpg)
Class 4 step:
![DSC03441.JPG DSC03441.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69997-476366f946b57f9a4eab2318fa333b0e.jpg)
![DSC03442.JPG DSC03442.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69998-86f6fc85f7a552718dae7497738f4a77.jpg)
Finally, I finished with the North Ridge of The Fin. Very solid rock with a bit of exposed Class 3 in two spots (pics).
![DSC03444.JPG DSC03444.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/69/69999-f34c477b7c0995c9d4d2094f51f22fab.jpg)
![DSC03448.JPG DSC03448.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70000-2d0a22c2f7e5bba9a6ff1e8d748277b8.jpg)
![DSC03453.JPG DSC03453.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70001-d69b8c1c91897484ec02e3ca50ba700b.jpg)
![DSC03462.JPG DSC03462.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70002-4ac63f74de15c7c671760c828d77ba34.jpg)
Nov 10: Trail hike to Observation Point then a couple pathetic Courtney Purcell bumps, one with a BM (Observation BM), and one with 350 feet of prominence (Blew By Peak). Great views. The peaks were really an excuse to repeat the East Rim Trail which have been a favorite of mine since my first visit in the late 1980s.
![DSC03465.JPG DSC03465.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70003-e5821fb1a131cc08f20fa2641dc0b45a.jpg)
![DSC03472.JPG DSC03472.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70004-a2097fe35f03947510c21103e21759e0.jpg)
![DSC03473.JPG DSC03473.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70005-490a1932dd96d415dc51f80502f523f5.jpg)
![DSC03475.JPG DSC03475.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70006-2034dc8823602c832b2d414672d8c056.jpg)
![DSC03479.JPG DSC03479.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70007-e698b8d4dd0033840fbb493f932ec93c.jpg)
![DSC03483.JPG DSC03483.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70008-1e5b2582bc6a5192156b06d80ff89315.jpg)
![DSC03485.JPG DSC03485.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70009-afc5981728249f48163f7b229db2139a.jpg)
![DSC03488.JPG DSC03488.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70010-defce1b3927b3730b264cadd43ad918f.jpg)
Nov 11: This was a great day of slickrock peak bagging and scrambling. Little bumps that are in the Courtney Purcell Zion Summits Guidebook, but aesthetic as all get out as far as scrambling goes. From Canyon Overlook TH at the tunnel of the east side: Overlook to Shelf Point to Bighorn Peak to Mind's Eye to Progeny Peak. All Class 2, lotsa sustained, and the south ridge of Mind's Eye Class 3 if remaining directly on the crest (avoidable on SE slope).
Big slabs above Canyon Overlook to Shelf Point. Then a fine descending traverse northward below The East Temple to the SW ridge of Bighorn Peak.
![DSC03494.JPG DSC03494.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70016-4c16994210bb30426e0f2ac8226cc51b.jpg)
![DSC03497.JPG DSC03497.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70017-34863b47252de6684691cc8d198c5503.jpg)
![DSC03501.JPG DSC03501.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70018-d91df46ef955443db2b49b4a8b9e6a50.jpg)
![DSC03508.JPG DSC03508.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70019-a4b810b3c51acae2d5771e3d3b1cdcc7.jpg)
![DSC03509.JPG DSC03509.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70020-c054bc1bb6c7b96933117daf45327acc.jpg)
![DSC03515.JPG DSC03515.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70021-d02f8f787f83dd99a4568fdc14ef7254.jpg)
![DSC03519.JPG DSC03519.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70022-3c812e3c74b952e85775cb5b4e789de1.jpg)
![DSC03521.JPG DSC03521.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70023-cdb78f3b9c0fd0ba6692a9704eed6a4e.jpg)
Down the North Ridge Bighorn Peak to upper NW Fork of Pine Creek, found the petroglyphs!
![DSC03535.JPG DSC03535.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70024-4e81dc0a091ecc48f8a0df5c5930c7cb.jpg)
![DSC03537.JPG DSC03537.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70025-c0ae1c4a43c56b1ff2f43e27b387b08a.jpg)
![DSC03540.JPG DSC03540.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70026-c9608ca9fcc19e902d36d92cdea1110a.jpg)
![DSC03541.JPG DSC03541.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70027-0a56d18393e329f0c7aeb0ef60ea55e4.jpg)
Up the North Ridge of Mind's Eye and down the South Ridge back to the highway parking.
![DSC03551.JPG DSC03551.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70028-a21f2268a75a3e6bd216c03c064348c0.jpg)
![DSC03555.JPG DSC03555.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70029-7789c9748c5e67eb8854c96923586f7a.jpg)
Cross Pine Creek on the road bridge and up the fine slickrock bowl of the SW slope of Progeny Peak
![DSC03558.JPG DSC03558.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70030-f42be8706b2ec83832820bbc82fe7d64.jpg)
![DSC03564.JPG DSC03564.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70031-08bfb8cb1c072ad9d63fdac8dce4cbfe.jpg)
![DSC03565.JPG DSC03565.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70032-45f261cc2b43547cd09902d356a3fb7c.jpg)
![DSC03573.JPG DSC03573.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70033-dc9dc7196b8f0eb20aa13e7a2fd165cb.jpg)
Great day, great location, great stuff.
Nov 12: A quick jaunt up NE slope of Lee Peak above the Lee Pass TH in the Kolob Region and a short walk out to the Timber Creek Overlook.
![LeePeak.jpg LeePeak.jpg](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70034-7dd15d34fc2bff32d418fae8855f856d.jpg)
![DSC03586.JPG DSC03586.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70011-235602877a2b85fe6c5aa75547fffd5b.jpg)
![DSC03588.JPG DSC03588.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70012-c6dc263f21f93c2a2af5800b5ea3b3bf.jpg)
![DSC03592.JPG DSC03592.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70013-915b2708a2eba7d9bc9d88a0d59d98f7.jpg)
![DSC03604.JPG DSC03604.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70014-6ee49c6d5f4bea3ebe36140e82c09d56.jpg)
![DSC03610.JPG DSC03610.JPG](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/70/70015-eb93d9edd98b966969fe6acf06c90171.jpg)