Twilight Peak Colorado

by Janice Pariza

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Twilight Peak Colorado

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Janice Pariza

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A sunny, awesome day on the San Juan Scenic Byway in Colorado.
Despite their impressive appearance from Molas Pass between Durango and Silverton, most hikers pass by the twisted, slabby West Needle Mountains on their way to somewhere else. Too bad, because one of Colorado's best peakbagging weekends is a climb of the three Twilight Peaks�North, Central, and South are each a hair more than 13,000 feet high.
From Molas Pass, hike six miles to Crater Lake. It's moderately popular, so keep going before setting up your basecamp. Continue a quarter mile southeast, climbing across metamorphic slabs to the obvious pass above Crater Lake. Cross it and drop several hundred feet, then turn southeast and traverse beneath the rugged face of North Twilight. Pitch camp here at an unnamed lake perched at 11,700 feet and surrounded by craggy summits. To the south, you'll have views across the yawning gulf of the Animas River gorge.

The Twilight climbs are rugged but technically straightforward class 2- 3 scrambles. Allow a full day for any two of the peaks. Aggressive parties might be able to bag all three in a day. Take helmets for the solid but rarely traveled rock slabs, and a light rope in case of trouble or route finding errors.

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January 18th, 2016

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