25 Peaks in 24 Hours

5/30/09

With Highway 2 open again I decided it was time to get back to some good ol peak bagging.  Unfortunately I fell substantially short of my goal but none-the-less managed to tag 25 named peaks.  This was not a single continuous hike but rather a combination of hikes. 

1. Messenger Peak 
2. Mount Gleason 
3. Rabbit Peak #1 
4. San Gabriel Peak 
5. Mount Disappointment 
6. Mount Deception 
7. Mount Markham 
8. Mount Lowe 
9. Inspiration Point (the peak above the shelter) 
10. Muir Peak 
11. Occidental Peak 
12. Mount Wilson 
13. Mount Sally 
14. Vetter Moutain Lookout 
15. Mount Mooney 
16. Winston Peak 
17. Mount Akawie 
18. Kratka Ridge 
19. Mount Baden-Powell 
20. Mount Burham 
21. Throop Peak 
22. Mount Hawkins 
23. Mount Lewis 
24. Pinyon Ridge 
25. Pacifico Mountain 

I started at 3:40am Saturday morning and arrived at the top of Pacifico Mountain at 3:29am the next morning.  I had also intended to tag Granite and Round Top but failed to reach these in time.  My apologies to everyone whose sleep I interupted: the tent city I wandered into on the south side of Throop, the two tents on the summit of Hawkins, and all the campers up at the Pacifico campground. 

Some things didn't work out so well.  The road to Barley Flats was closed so I had to skip that one.  The road to Vetter Lookout was also closed but I went ahead and hiked that one from the highway. 

While most of the hikes were short I did two substantial loops.  One in the San Gabriel Peak area (14.3 miles) and another from Baden-Powell to Hawkins (11.7 miles). 

Total mileage was 39.5 with approximately 10,000 feet of gain. 

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