Wood Mountain Loop
Date: 8/12/2020
Partner: Eddie Mack, Randy Mack (and Animas Forks solo)
Trailhead: Cinnamon Pass
Summits:
* Wood Mountain - Class 2
* PT13688 - Class 3
* Gravel Mountain (UR) - Class 2
* Seigal Mountain - Class 1
* PT13708 UR - Class 2
* PT13708 UR - Class 2
* Animas Forks Mountain - Class 2+
Distance: 9.2m
Elevation Gain: 4200ft
Duration: 6hrs 50min
GPX
This was an awesome loop with views, mining history, a cool out and back ridge run and a spicy gully.
Was fun to meet up with Eddie(Mtnman200) and his son Randy(RandyMack) for a good portion of this outing. If I remember correctly Eddie completed the tri-centenials and has almost doubled up on the bi-centennials. Randy completed the bi-centennials in 2020. In addition Eddie's father Larry is a peak bagger himself making for three generations of Mack climbers... very cool!
Also did an out and backover Wood to PT13708 on 10/18/2023 with Kristi. Turns out I missed PT13708 when I did the loop :-o. It is commical how close I was looking at the GPX file.
Wood Mountain 14ers.com Page
PT13688 14ers.com Page
Gravel Mountain 14ers.com Page
Seigal Mountain 14ers.com Page
PT13708 14ers.com Page
Animas Forks Mountain 14ers.com Page
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Wood Mountain(R) - Animas Forks(L) from Cinnamon Pass
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Looking back to Cinnamon Pass while hiking Wood's SE ridge
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Morning light on Cinnamon Pass. Handies and American Basin in the distance
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Wood Mountain's north ridge
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A storm behind Animas Forks Mountain would pass without incident.
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Looking back to Wood Mountain through some minor flurries
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We would not take this ridge to PT13688. Instead we dropped down into Hurrican Basin on the left and up a spicy gully to 13688's summit
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Animas Forks Mountain on the left. We dropped into Hurricane Basin(to the left) at the yellow rock on the saddle
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Looking into Hurricane Basin and 13688
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Rainbow on Gravel Mountain's west shoulder.
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The spicy 3/4 gully we took to 13688's summit. Put on your helmet and be careful not to knock anything on climbers below.... especially near the top.
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688 views: The ridge that connects Woods and PT13708
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Sneffels and Yankee Boy peaks from 13688. Seigal Mountain in the foreground
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ummmm.... yeah!
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Wood Mountain from 13688
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L2R: Coxcomb, Wetterhorn, Uncompahgre from 13688
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Instead of descending the spicy gully we opted to traverse to Gravel and then back down into Hurricane Basin
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Looking back to 13688 from Gravel
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If you look closely you can see some old mining structures in the basin below
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We found the old mining cabins nicely restored. Randy being a mining junkie was stoked to tour each of the structures.
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Except for this one. Next stop Seigal Mountain top center
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Randy on Seigal's south ridge. Animas Forks Mountain above the lake was next on the list
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From Seigal's summit looking east to Wood and 13688. That gully we climbed sure looks steep from here!
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Hello Yankee Boy!
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Wetterhorn
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Pano: L2R: Gravel, PT13688, Wood, Animas Forks. The high point in the center is just an extension of Wood's west ridge and is not a peak in and of itself
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I would do an out and back on this fun ridge to the summit of Animas Forks Mountain
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Out and....
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back
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Summit of Animas Forks Mountain
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After returning from Animas Forks I took the first opportunity to drop down into the basin SW of Wood Mountain and back to the truck
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