Wildcat Ridge traverse: Olympus to Reynolds Peak
Joe and I started hiking on the Olympus trail at 4:40 AM Friday. I reached the summit in 2 hours, Joe was there about 20 minutes before me. (Don't feel bad for me or Joe--he has climbed Olympus 300 times.) From Olympus we went East on Wildcat Ridge and it was appox. a 2 hour hike to Triangle Peak. We reached the summit of Mt Raymond at about 9.5 hours. The we hiked down to Baker Pass, then up to Gobbler's Knob summit. From Gobbler's we decsended its East ridge a ways then we hiked steeply down to connect with the Desolation trail. We followed Deso trail to Dog lake, then hiked to summit of Reynolds Peak. I was out of steam at that point and Joe continued back down to Dog lake, then up another mile to Little Water peak. We hiked back to a shuttle car waiting at Mill D TH. Then it was down to the pizza joint next to Dan's at Olympus Cove where we each devoured half a large pie. That was my 3rd time doing the Wildcat Ridge traverse, and we go a little further each year. | 