Kit Carson & Challenger Point

June 20, 2006
Hike up Challenger Point 14,080’, Kit Carson 14,165’, Columbia Point 13,980’ and Mt Adams 13,931’. (All top 100 summits.)

Left the Willow Creek TH 8905’ at 5:20am. Returned at 6:30pm.

GPS says 17.4 miles of hiking.
7.20 moving time
5:51 stopped time
Moving avg 2.1
Overall avg 1.2 mi/hr

Went with Joel Hawkins. Camped out over night - it was beautiful. Stars all over. No moon. Alarms didn’t go off right, so we started a little late but it was all good.

Beautiful hike up to Willow Lake. Waterfalls, very green. Found a great glissade down the Outward Bound couloir off of Kit Carson. Wishing that we had ice axes. We did it anyway and it turned out to be a great slide.

Lessons learned: Ice axes are always nice to have, almost all year long. Tennis shoes really aren’t the best option out there. Water, water, water!!