Vestal Basin: July 2009

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Sunrise over the Needle Mountains
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View down to the Animas River
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Pete on the Molas Trail
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Walking the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge
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Small stream on the Elk Creek Trail
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Horde of Columbine on the Elk Creek Trail
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Crossing the rock gash
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View of Vestal and Arrow
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Beaver ponds
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Pete reconsidering the log crossing
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On the Vestal Basin trail
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Around 10,400ft in Vestal Basin
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Arrow Peak
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The Trinities from the lower meadow
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Vestal Peak's Wham Ridge
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Camp for two nights
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West Trinity Peak
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Arrow Peak
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Ascending snow to the Vestal-West Trinity saddle
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Enlarging old goat tracks
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Balsam Lake
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View South
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Scrambling up West Trinity
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Approaching the summit of West Trinity
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View to Middle Trinity
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Jagged, Windom and Sunlight
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Descending from West Trinity
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Sky Pilot
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Sunny cairn
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Scrambling up Middle Trinity
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Nearing Middle's summit
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Heading to East Trinity
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On the summit ridge of East Trinity
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Descending East Trinity
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Heading back into Vestal Basin
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Middle Trinity Peak
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Wildflowers
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West Trinity, Vestal and Arrow Peaks
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Vestal Peak's Wham Ridge
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Wham Ridge from the grassy ledge
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Pete on the grassy ledge
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West side of Wham Ridge
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Scrambling on the Wham Ridge
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100 foot crack climb
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Pete on the 5.4 pitch
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Fixed Pin
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Back on 4th class terrain
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Exposed moves near the summit
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Vestal Lake far below
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Vestal Peak
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Starting up Arrow Peak
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Scrambling on Arrow Peak
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Rock slabs below are our route
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Hiking out on the Elk Creek Trail