by DHatfield » Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:04 pm
Thanks everyone!
lukePlumley: Yes, there were many summits that were pretty much unclimbed at least per LOJ's, however as usual a very few did have ascends prior to me just not LOJ members. As to private property there were several mostly in the northern tier as well as the south tier of the county that has access issue, however most along the Arkansas River are surprisingly in BLM land or state land trusts areas. It was much easier access wise then Custer County for sure. The biggest thing I liked about doing that list is so many peaks nobody has done and figuring out a way up it without any beta. As to hidden jems that ones I liked the most was Point 7,516, Point 7,741, Point 7,363, Lookout Mountain, and Point 8,759, Point 7,940 having excellent scrambles to there summits. Point 8,093, Point 7,763, Point 7,580, and Point 7,363 has incredible views of the Arkansas River valley. Yea, I'm sure not many are going to want to do those nasty peaks with the heat, scrub oak (mostly the northern and east peaks), loose steep rocky slopes that at time I thought about stop working on the list.
KevinBaker: From what I remember about 85 of the 164 (51%) were on private property. However most are pretty easy doing despite that fact other then the Table Mountain group that you haven't done yet as well as the Delilia Peak Group, and the Green Mountain Group are the only ones that have tough access issues that I solved by moon lighting them. After getting off of Denali I was a little tired of snow and wanted something a little drier, however low and behold those last 5 were brutally hot and very stiff bushwacking. Finding a way up Point 7,363 ended up being loaded with scrub oak city and massive boulder getting up that making it a real bugger.
Steve Knapp: Yea I was thinking that the final day I finished Fremont County thinking "what the heck this heat is killing me", I really should of waited until winter to finish, but being so close I just figured might as well knock them last little puppies off. LOL, hike down there too much and you will definitely think other areas are much nicer. Oh there are a few that get worse then Gribble, but that ranks pretty high up the list. I think after Fremont and Custer I'm a pretty harden soul now with all that nasty bushwhacking. Pics I have many and hope to load some up for Fremont and Custer Counties now that I'm done. TR's, what are those?
JohnKirk: I would totally agree with what you said. I feel that list will remain untouched for sometime. As mentioned earlier I almost thought about giving up at a time or two.