Hiking to Mount Zirkel the hard way (July 9, 2008)

Slide show of a 17-mile round trip day-hike/climb to the summit of Mount Zirkel (12,180 ft elevation) in the Mount Zirkel Wilderness, near Steamboat Springs, Colorado on July 9, 2008. Started from the Slavonia trail head, hiking along the Gilpin Lake trail, with a off-route (left turn) path at Gilpin Creek and Class 3 scramble to the ridge top adjacent the plateau (approximately 12,000 ft elevation) on the Continental Divide from which Mount Zirkel rises, with Class 2/3 scramble to the summit (and false summit), back down and across snow fields along the plateau, then down the Red Dirt Pass trail into the (snow-filled) basin adjacent to Flattop Mountain, then a Class 2/3 scramble back up to the ridge top and steep descent toward Gilpin Lake back to the Gilpin Lake trail. Long day -- peaceful and quiet (I did not see another person for the first 9.4 of the total 9.5 hours -- until the end of the hike near the Slavonia trail head). And now a long video slide show with no sound (sorry).

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[UnknownWI]

Thank you the note.

I was glad to survive my trek to the peak of Mount Zirkel (on the third try).

How do you get to the Mt. Agnes cave?

[aldolh48]

Good slide show but you missed the cave on north side of Mt. Agnes!