The second highest peak in Salt Lake County.
The tallest peak visible from Salt Lake City.
We started on the trailhead at 1:30 and got to the saddle
at 5:00.
The hardest part of the hike is the huge boulderfield below
the Cottonwood Saddle at the head of Broads Fork.
From the saddle, you travel up the ridge, until you get to
a steep headwall.
You can either keep climbing up the ridge (requires some technical
climbing skill) or better, go along the left/south side. Find
a place to climb up on this wall, with different routes ranging
in difficulty from a 5.3 - 5.6
(very easy - medium)
It's exposed, so don't fall here. Once you get to the top
of this wall, which is only about 10-15 feet of climbing,
you just continue up the switchbacks up the East Twin. We
continued on over to the West Twin, which has better views
of the city. We went down in the dark. My knee still hurts.
The East Twin
as seen from the saddle between the East Twin and the West Twin
Looking west down Big Cottonwood Canyon,
from the beginning of the Broads Fork Trail.
Looking south down Broads Fork, toward Wildcat Ridge.
Wildcat Ridge, Mount Raymond and Gobbler's Knob.
Mount Raymond and Gobbler's Knob, Mount Aire is visible next
to Raymond.
Dromedary, Sunrise and unnamed
Right after the saddle you climb up this ridge,
we continued on the left side of it.
This wall is riddled with ledges, if you can make it up the
huge boulderfield below the saddle,
you should have more than enough balance to walk across this
section, and climb it as well.
Jared picking a more difficult section to climb, I am on an
easy route.
Looking east over the headwall toward unnamed and Sunrise Peak.
Looking south toward Alpine Ridge from the saddle.
White Baldy, Timpanogos (in the distance) The Pfeifferhorn,
and Thunder Mountain.
Looking east down the Cottonwood Ridge.
Dromedary Peak (center) with Monte
Cristo and Mount Superior
behind.
Looking east toward Lake
Blanche (left) and the west side of Sundial Peak (right).
From the West Twin looking east past the East Twin toward Monte
Cristo and Mount Superior.
Looking north over the Deaf Smith - Ferguson Canyon Ridge toward
Mount Olympus.
Looking west at Jared receiving revelation from atop the West
Twin.
Looking north at some graffiti from 1966 found on the west side
of the West Twin.
I guess hikers started caring about preservation in 1967.
You can see all the way to Ben Lomond Peak.
Looking north over Wildcat Ridge into the Northern Wasatch;
Willard Peak, Ben Lomond Peak and Chilly Peak.
Looking south toward Thunder Mountain, Lone Peak,
and the dozens of granite drainages in Little Cottonwood Canyon.
Perlas Ridge is visible as the highlighted ridge on the lower
right.
A closer view of Perlas Ridge, a difficult mountaineering scramble.
Looking southeast toward American
Fork Twin Peaks and Red Top.
The tallest point in Salt Lake County.
The A.F. Twins are the first two on the left.
Looking north over Mount Olympus, Downtown Salt Lake City,
The Foothills and The Great Salt Lake.
A view of Sunrise Peak from the agonizing boulder talus.
From the East Twin looking east toward Sunrise Peak 11,275'
and on into Albion Basin,
with Devils Castle abruptly jetting out in the distance.
From the West Twin looking east down Little Cottonwood Canyon.
How many peaks can you name?
Looking north toward Antelope Island and the Great Salt Lake.
Antelope Island and the Great Salt Lake
Waving good-bye to the West Twin.
Early morning pictures of Broads Fork, Sunrise Peak and Dromedary
Peak
from a previous attempt to Twin
Peaks
We climbed Twin Peaks yesterday; it was quite challenging and fun. Here is our GPS Track: maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=202211366225650626982.000471bd88d7f5ca7f865&m id=1250963758
As you can see, we took two different paths once we arrived at the ridge. I recommend, as does this site, that you follow the ridge and then go up "the crack".
MILO JONES
SUGARHOUSE
2008-01-03
HAVE ANY OF YOU CLIMBED TWIN PEAKS,SUNRISE AND DROMEDARY ALL IN THE SAME DAY?
