Stony Pass Peak – 13,172

RT Length: 1.5 miles

Elevation Gain: 618’

I had just gotten back from summiting PT 13076, and I wasn’t feeling it today.  I was tired and achy and sore, and just wanted to rest.  I had some lunch, and about 2 hours later decided to do some scouting on Stony Pass Peak, to figure out how I wanted to summit it the next day.  Well, suddenly I had a burst of energy, because instead of scouting it, I just summited the peak.

I could see Stony Pass Peak from my parking spot at Stony Pass. 

I headed towards Stoney Pass Peak around 2pm.  This is the overall route I took to get to the summit.

First, I headed southwest on the tundra towards the ridge

The terrain became rocky, but there were various social trails in the area, making navigation easy. I just kept heading southwest and up, following the social trails to the summit.  There was talus, and it became rocky, but this was all class 2.

I summited Stony Pass Peak at 2:35am

Stony Pass Peak:

From the summit I could see the road and my truck parked below.

I made my way back down towards the road.

Then followed the road to my truck

I made it back to my truck at 3pm, making this a 1.5 mile hike with 618’ of elevation gain in 45 minutes.

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Author: Laura M Clark

Laura has summited over 500 peaks above 13,000' solo, including being the first woman to solo summit all of the Colorado 14ers, as well as the centennials. After each hike, she writes trip reports for each one and publishes them on her blog, which is read by fans all over the world. Author of Wild Wanderer: Summiting Colorado’s 200 Highest Peaks, which is available to purchase on Amazon.

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