NoCo Chris
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  • 2012 & 2013 TRs
    • 2012 Trip Reports >
      • UN 6674 'Triangulation Point'
      • Shipler Mountain/Trail Ridge
      • Storm Peak
      • Panorama Peak and Sugarloaf Mountain
      • Lookout Mtn/Horsetooth Pk
      • Thatchtop
      • Green Mountain and Chickaree Lake
      • UN 7432 'Kelly Flats Peak'
      • Mount Bierstadt and Sawtooth Ridge
      • UN 6176
      • Clark Peak
      • Prohibition Mtn, Pingree Hill, UN 8079, UN 9740
      • "The Sabre"
      • Moriah, Manhead, 8340, 8555, 8435
      • Desolation Peaks
      • Round Butte
      • Pole Hill
      • The Needles and Lumpy Ridge HP
      • Pine Ridge
    • 2013 Trip Reports >
      • Eagle Rock and UN 8220
      • Kenny Mountain
      • Deer Ridge East
      • UN 8820
      • Dark Mountain
      • Mount Dickinson
      • UN 11002
      • Little Matterhorn
      • Snowdrift Peak
      • Crystal Mountain Group
      • Cameron Peak
      • Copeland Mountain
      • 8300, 8161, 8140, Sheep Mountain
      • UN 7383
      • UN 9986 and UN 9634
      • UN 10100 and UN 10013
  • 2014 Trip Reports
    • Prospect Mountain and Checkerboard Rock
    • UN 6823 and 6176
    • Panorama Peak
    • Livermore Mountain and UN 6975
    • Round Mountain, UNs 8092 & 8310
    • Fairchild Mountain
    • DeCaLibron
    • Ramsay, Sugarloaf and Skull
    • Sheep Mountain and Rock
    • Laramie-Poudre Tunnel and UN 10060
  • 2015 Trip Reports
    • Storm Mountain
    • UN 6945
    • UNs 7231 and 6485
    • UN 7380
    • Turkey Roost
    • UNs 9460S, 9495 & 10088
    • Nokhu Crags
    • High Dune
    • San Luis Peak
    • Bald Mountains and Laramie Mtns. HP
    • Mount Ida, Chief Cheley Peak, UN 12820
    • Lookout Mountain and UN 10582
    • Hell Canyon
    • UN 10020
    • Palisade Mountain
  • 2016 Trip Reports
    • UN 6740
    • UNs 9166 and 8806
    • The Monastery
    • Lonetree Mountain
  • External Sites
Short climb of point 8820 before fishing up in Red Feathers for the day. I was dropped at the national forest sign pullout just west of the Mount Margaret/ Lady Moon trailheads, and the designated meeting point was West Lake parking lot for some fishing afterwards. I followed the small road leading out of the pullout, crossed the gate and made my way through slash piles before dropping into the meadow. For some reason I wasn't expecting the meadow to be so soggy despite the precipitous weather over the last weeks, and had to 'ford' across the marsh. Heading up the hillside I intersected a very well worn(yet unmarked) trail that I'd follow a ways before bushwhacking thr rest of the way to the summit.

Exploring the summit area I hit the two tallest points, determined the western one was the true summit and milled around in the mid morning sun. Good views in all directions, no register or cairn. I took a different descent route in order to shortcut some of the road walking I was destined to do. Dropping down through the intermittent tree/rock/aspen patches I rerouted on the trail I'd intersected earlier and followed it west a ways, cut through a saddle between an outcropping and hit the large meadow that reaches from Parvin Lake. Though on the maps the area is national forest, but it sure didn't seem like it. I crossed a big fence and hung to the edge of the meadow taking cover in the trees. Eventually I cut across the meadow, jumped the creek(this time there were stepping stones) and walked to the road. I never saw signage against trespassing, but it didn't quite feel right during that stretch and I wasn't interested in encounters. Walking along the road I passed the Parvin Lake DOW outpost and read the plaque before cutting through the West Lake Campground and to the lake itself.
 
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