{"id":1867,"date":"2015-09-28T08:10:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T14:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2019-04-09T19:20:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T01:20:33","slug":"medicine-bow-peak-the-carbon-county-wy-high-point-8-10-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/?p=1867","title":{"rendered":"Medicine Bow Peak & the Carbon County, WY High Point (8-10-15)"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Day 2 of Lupe’s great Summer of 2015 Dingo Vacation,\u00a0she set a new personal record by climbing\u00a0Medicine Bow Peak<\/a><\/strong><\/span> (12,013 ft.)<\/strong><\/span> in Wyoming. \u00a0Medicine Bow Peak was the first mountain over 12,000 feet Lupe had ever climbed, surpassing Lonesome Mountain<\/a><\/span> (11,399 ft.)<\/span><\/strong> in Montana.\u00a0 Lupe had climbed Lonesome Mountain on 8-3-14 near the end of her Summer of 2014 Dingo Vacation.<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite Lupe’s late night antics near\u00a0Laramie Peak<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0(10,272 ft.)<\/strong><\/span> the previous evening, Lupe and SPHP were up at 5:30 AM on the morning of 8-10-15.\u00a0 It was the start of Day 2 of Lupe’s 2015 Dingo Vacation.\u00a0 Lupe was eager to get going!\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP left the Friend Park area near Laramie Peak turning S on USFS Road No. 671.\u00a0 A sign said it was 6 miles to Arapaho Trail Road.\u00a0 SPHP had no idea where Arapaho Trail Road might go, but Lupe was going to find out!<\/p>\n

Along the way, Lupe was so stirred up by the sights and sounds outside, SPHP stopped the G6 three separate times.\u00a0\u00a0Each time, Lupe dashed out of the G6\u00a0to race around sniffing madly\u00a0through the forests and meadows.\u00a0 She literally bounded through the forest and tall grass.\u00a0 With all these dingo delays, the six miles to Arapahoe Trail Road went by slowly.<\/p>\n

USFS Road No. 671 wasn’t too bad a road.\u00a0 The G6 had no difficulties until the road dipped rather steeply on its way down into a small valley.\u00a0 The slope was rutty, rocky and eroded.\u00a0\u00a0The G6\u00a0had to proceed very slowly and carefully down the hill.\u00a0 SPHP was happy to have guided the G6 down without incident, but only for a moment.\u00a0 Almost immediately, a\u00a0huge murky mud puddle (which might actually have been part of a stream)\u00a0occupied the entire road ahead.\u00a0 No way the G6 was going through that!<\/p>\n

\"End<\/a>
End of the line for the G6 on USFS Road No. 671 nearly 6 miles S of Laramie Peak. Time to turn around!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So Lupe never made it to Arapaho Trail Road.\u00a0\u00a0Where Arapaho Trail Road goes remains a mystery.\u00a0 SPHP was just glad there was an easy spot to turn the G6 around.\u00a0 Another slow crawl over the rocky, rutty part of USFS Road No. 671 ensued, this time heading uphill.\u00a0 The G6 triumphed again.\u00a0 If Lupe was disappointed at having to backtrack all the way N again on No. 671, she was certainly able to hide it.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A sad Lupe thinks about having to head all the way back N on USFS Road No. 671. No doubt she will be forced to get out and run around sniffing some more.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lupe insisted on getting out to bound around sniffing a couple of more times on the way back N.\u00a0 Finally, though, the G6 reached County Road No. 710.\u00a0 Instead of turning N to Esterbrook,\u00a0Lupe turned S.\u00a0 No. 710 wasn’t a great road, but it was good enough to drive the G6 20-30 mph most of the\u00a0long way to Fetterman Road.<\/p>\n

The scenery in this remote part of the\u00a0Laramie Mountains was beautiful.\u00a0 There were a few abandoned ranch homes, but no traffic and no people around for a very long way.\u00a0 Little birds flew over the road, rabbits and small animals dashed across it, cows and horses munched away in the open fields between the mountains.\u00a0 Lupe had a blast barking at the cows and horses.\u00a0 Every now and then SPHP let her out of the G6 to explore, while SPHP admired the sights and sounds of nature.<\/p>\n

\"There<\/a>
There were a couple of nice ponds like this one as Lupe neared the edge of the Laramie Mountains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By the time Lupe and SPHP reached Fetterman Road, the Laramie Mountains had been left behind.\u00a0 Fetterman Road went across 41 miles of high barren rolling plains full of cows, horses and pronghorn antelope.\u00a0 For some reason, Carolina Dogs never seem to grow hoarse or lose interest in barking at grazing animals.\u00a0 Lupe worked herself up into a complete frenzy.\u00a0 The din inside the G6 lasted as long as Fetterman Road did.\u00a0 Outside the views were not as dramatic as in the mountains, but still pleasing to the eye.<\/p>\n

Fetterman Road ended at Hwy 30 just a few miles N of Rock River, WY.\u00a0 Hwy 30 was undergoing road construction.\u00a0 The G6 had to wait for a pilot car to come along.\u00a0 For a few minutes, Lupe and SPHP got out of the G6.\u00a0 Lupe’s barker was dry – very dry.\u00a0 She lapped up water almost as frantically as she had barked all along Fetterman Road.<\/p>\n

From Rock River, Lupe headed SW on Hwy 13 past McFadden, reaching I-80 at Arlington.\u00a0 SPHP drove W on I-80, but only as far as Exit 260.\u00a0 There Lupe headed S on a very patchy, bumpy paved road that soon turned to gravel.\u00a0 Elk<\/span> Mountain<\/span><\/strong><\/a> (11,156 ft.)<\/strong><\/span> was now in view to the SW.<\/p>\n

\"Lupe<\/a>
Lupe NE of 11,156 foot Elk Mountain, WY.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lupe and SPHP continued on.\u00a0 Dusty USFS Road No. 100 led Lupe up into the Medicine Bow Mountains past Turpin Reservoir, which was mostly hidden by the forest.\u00a0 SPHP was\u00a0glad to reach paved\u00a0Hwy 30.\u00a0\u00a0Upon reaching the West Trailhead at Lake Marie,\u00a0SPHP parked the G6.\u00a0 At 2:54 PM, Lupe and SPHP started for Medicine Bow Peak along the Lakes Trail.\u00a0 It was 64\u00b0F.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Lupe at Lake Marie in the Medicine Bow Mountains. Photo looks NW from near the outlet stream.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lake<\/a>
Lake Marie from the NE. Note the terrain at the far end of the lake. It became important later on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Lakes Trail\u00a0went between Lake Marie and Mirror Lake.\u00a0 Then it headed NNE passing to the E of\u00a0Lookout Lake, the largest lake along the route, and a series of smaller lakes and ponds.\u00a0 To the W of all the lakes were the cliffs beneath the long, high ridge that extends up to Medicine Bow Peak.<\/p>\n

\"Mirror<\/a>
Mirror Lake from the S.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"<\/a>
Lupe SE of Lookout Lake, Medicine Bow Range, WY.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lupe<\/a>
Lupe farther N now, but still\u00a0to the E of Lookout Lake along the Lakes Trail. Medicine Bow Peak in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Lakes Trail climbed at an easy to moderate pace as it headed NNE past all the lakes.\u00a0 At least it should have been easy.\u00a0 Maybe for Lupe it was.\u00a0 She seemed to have no difficulties whatsoever.\u00a0 SPHP, on the other hand, was dragging from the very start.\u00a0 Perhaps it was the 10,500 foot elevation level (higher than Laramie Peak!)\u00a0near the start of the trail at Lake Marie.\u00a0 Perhaps it was the 2,800 feet of elevation gain climbing Laramie Peak the previous day.\u00a0 Maybe it was not enough sleep.\u00a0 Maybe it was the combination of all three.<\/p>\n

Whatever it was, SPHP struggled along the trail with little energy, breathing hard, with heart pounding.\u00a0 Lupe must have wondered at the reason for all the rest stops.\u00a0 At least they gave\u00a0her time to appreciate the gorgeous alpine scenery all around.\u00a0 That’s one nice thing about the Medicine Bows – even though the area of alpine\u00a0terrain isn’t all that huge, Hwy 130\u00a0climbs up high enough to start adventures already in the alpine zone.<\/p>\n

SPHP marveled at how 2,800 feet of elevation gain at Laramie Peak hadn’t seemed that difficult.\u00a0 Yet now the 1,500 feet of elevation gain necessary to reach the top of Medicine Bow Peak seemed endless and insurmountable.\u00a0 In the end, SPHP simply lived up to the\u00a0acronym and plodded slowly on, taking as many rest breaks as required to keep going.\u00a0 Gradually, Lupe and SPHP got past Lookout Lake and approached Sugarloaf Mountain.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Lupe still near Lookout Lake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Making<\/a>
Making progress – now NE of Lookout Lake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"<\/a>
Sugarloaf Mountain<\/span><\/a> (11,300 ft.)<\/span><\/strong>. Photo looks NE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NW of Sugarloaf Mountain<\/a><\/span><\/strong> at the top of the\u00a0pass between Sugarloaf Mountain and Medicine Bow Peak, the Lakes Trail met up with the trail coming from Lewis Lake to the E and the Medicine Bow Trail.\u00a0 The easy part was over!\u00a0 It was time to climb the steep, rocky switchbacks of the Medicine Bow Trail up the E face of Medicine Bow Peak.\u00a0 Surprisingly, SPHP seemed to get a bit of a second wind.\u00a0 Gradually Lupe and SPHP gained elevation and the views got even better.<\/p>\n

\"Looking<\/a>
Looking S as Lupe climbs Medicine Bow Peak. Lookout Lake is now the farthest one in the distance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Looking<\/a>
Looking NE at Browns Peak<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0(11,722 ft.)<\/strong><\/span>, which came into view once Lupe reached the pass between Medicine Bow Peak and Sugarloaf Mountain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Looking<\/a>
Looking SE now at Sugarloaf Mountain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the Lakes Trail, there had been plenty of people and dogs.\u00a0 However,\u00a0Lupe and SPHP had gotten such a late start that by the time Lupe was headed up the Medicine Bow Trail, there weren’t many people left.\u00a0 Most of them were headed back down.\u00a0 After a little while, there were only two other people on the trail.\u00a0 They were ahead of Lupe and SPHP, and still going up.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP gradually gained on them, much to SPHP’s surprise.<\/p>\n

Close to the top of the mountain, Lupe started seeing snow.\u00a0 Just before the final climb, the trail turned sharply and revealed a 100 foot long snowbank.\u00a0 It wasn’t terribly wide, maybe 20 feet, but the trail went right up the length of it.\u00a0 Lupe was thrilled!\u00a0 She rolled around on the snow in delight.<\/p>\n

\"Close<\/a>
Close to the top of Medicine Bow Peak there starts to be some snow.\u00a0 By now you know that biggest lake to the S is Lookout Lake.\u00a0 Lake Marie, where Lupe started this climb, is seen beyond Lookout Lake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lupe<\/a>
Lupe loved the big long snowbank the trail went over just before reaching the summit of Medicine Bow Peak.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the top of the long snowbank, Lupe and SPHP caught up with the couple who had been leading the way up Medicine Bow Peak.\u00a0 They had stopped for a break.\u00a0 They were from Virginia.\u00a0 SPHP chatted with them for a few minutes before Lupe and SPHP continued on ahead.<\/p>\n

Above the long snowbank was nothing but a boulder field.\u00a0 It was just a scramble across the rocks to the summit, gaining at most 50 feet of elevation along the way.\u00a0 Lupe is great at boulder hopping.\u00a0 SPHP not so much, but SPHP still managed to make progress.\u00a0 The wooden post at the summit was already\u00a0in sight, when the guy from Virginia reappeared.\u00a0 He had no difficulty passing SPHP and reaching the summit first.\u00a0 After giving him a little time to enjoy the summit in peace, Lupe and SPHP headed over to it, too.<\/p>\n

SPHP didn’t see the woman, and asked the guy if she was still coming.\u00a0 He said she was now scared and didn’t want to go any further.\u00a0 She was waiting for him back at the snowbank.<\/p>\n

SPHP encouraged him to just give her a little encouragement.\u00a0 There was hardly any elevation gain left for her to be able to claim a successful summit.\u00a0 The boulder field was slow, but it was not difficult and not dangerous.\u00a0 It wasn’t steep either, as long as she stayed away from the cliffs at the E face of the mountain.\u00a0 In fact,\u00a0what remained was far less scary than\u00a0what she’d already done.\u00a0 The weather was perfect – SPHP had arrived at the summit in a T-shirt.\u00a0 She would be glad and proud she finished climbing Medicine Bow Peak.<\/p>\n

The guy replied that he didn’t want to force her, but said he would ask her again if she wanted to continue.\u00a0 SPHP told him to tell her that Lupe was waiting at the summit to congratulate her.\u00a0 He laughed and left.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP remained at the summit enjoying the terrific views in all directions.<\/p>\n

\"Lupe<\/a>
Lupe on the summit of Medicine Bow Peak. Photo looks NE towards Browns Peak.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Looking<\/a>
Looking S from the summit of Medicine Bow Peak.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Looking<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Looking<\/a>
Looking N back at the summit post on Medicine Bow Peak, the first mountain over 12,000 feet Lupe had ever climbed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although Lupe and SPHP waited, the gal from Virginia never appeared.\u00a0 SPHP thought that was a shame, but it was her choice.\u00a0 Still, she likely just needed some encouragement.\u00a0 There was nothing an American Dingo could do about it, though.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP had arrived at the summit about 45 minutes before sunset.\u00a0 It was a long way back to the G6, and Lupe still had some peakbagging left to do!<\/p>\n

The Medicine Bow Trail continues S of Medicine Bow Peak on the W side of the long ridge that extends clear down to Lake Marie.\u00a0 At the far S end of the ridge, it heads steeply down to the West Lake Marie Trailhead where the G6 was parked.\u00a0 Lupe was going back this way to make a giant loop.<\/p>\n

A short distance E of the trail, not too far SW of Medicine Bow Peak, is the Carbon County, WY high point, also known as Medicine Bow Peak – West Ridge<\/a> (11,920 ft.)<\/span><\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 It is not a peak of any sort, just a spot on the way back down the mountain where the county line intersects the ridge.\u00a0 As the high point of Carbon County, it was a peakbagging goal for Lupe.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The high point of Carbon County is just beyond the next hill of boulders seen here\u00a0to the S!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Heading<\/a>
Heading towards the Carbon County, WY high point from Medicine Bow Peak.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Looking<\/a>
Looking back towards Medicine Bow Peak from the SW. The big rock cairn with a sharpened post sticking out of it was typical of the cairns along the Medicine Bow Trail. They were soon to prove very useful to Lupe & SPHP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lupe and SPHP headed SW from Medicine Bow Peak on the Medicine Bow Trail.\u00a0 The trail went around the W side of the\u00a0next slightly lower boulder hill.\u00a0 Somewhere not too far down on the ridge\u00a0extending down from the\u00a0SW side of this hill was the Carbon County, Wyoming High Point that Lupe was looking for.\u00a0 Soon after passing the hill, Lupe and SPHP left the trail to head E and climb up on the ridge.\u00a0 The sun was just setting as Lupe headed for the ridge.<\/p>\n

\"Lupe<\/a>
Lupe on her search for the Carbon County, Wyoming High Point. The highest mountain in the distance\u00a0on the right\u00a0is Kennaday Peak<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0(10,810 ft.)<\/strong><\/span>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Lupe<\/a>
Lupe up on the ridge SW of the first boulder hill SW of Medicine Bow Peak. Lupe headed\u00a0down along the ridge (toward the camera) from the big flat boulder she is next to\u00a0looking for the Carbon County HP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SPHP had brought notes on what a couple of other climbers who had been to the Carbon County, Wyoming High Point had written on Peakbagger.com.\u00a0 Dan Quinlan (8-18-12) had written the\u00a0“only thing of note was some old fencing in the area”<\/em>.\u00a0 Eric Noel (8-30-10) had written “An improbable small snag must have been placed as a potential county line given that it was the only thing in an immense sea of rocks and quite close to the HP.”<\/em><\/p>\n

And then, after Lupe headed down the ridgeline a little way, there it was!\u00a0 In the fading light was Eric Noel’s “improbable small snag” right about where the Carbon County High Point ought to be.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP headed for it.\u00a0 There was some wire down in the rocks at the base of the snag.\u00a0 It looked like it was smooth wire, but after Lupe’s bad experience with barbed wire back in the Black Hills on 6-27-15<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, SPHP didn’t want Lupe to linger here or anywhere else\u00a0there was wire on the ground –\u00a0just in case it wasn’t all smooth.<\/p>\n

\"Eric<\/a>
Eric Noel’s “improbable small snag” at the Carbon County HP? There was some smooth wire down among the rocks below it.\u00a0 Dan Quinlan’s “old fencing”?\u00a0 SPHP believes this was it, or very close to the actual Carbon County, HP.\u00a0 If not, Lupe had to have been at it or very close somewhere along her route.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

About a football field away to the NW of the “improbable small snag”, one of the cairns along the Medicine Bow Trail was in view.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP headed over to it in order to reach the trail.\u00a0 Looking back to the SE, the “improbable small snag” was in clear sight from the cairn.<\/p>\n

The sun was down even before Lupe had reached the Carbon County High Point.\u00a0 The light was starting to fade.\u00a0 It was time to make tracks.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP followed the Medicine Bow Trail heading SW.\u00a0 Although there were extensive boulder fields all along the way, the trail did a pretty good job of avoiding the worst of them.\u00a0 For a little while, the trail headed W and lost a fair amount of elevation.\u00a0 It eventually turned back to the S and then went up and down.<\/p>\n

SPHP was really fatigued by now.\u00a0 The up stretches weren’t really bad at all, but each one seemed difficult.\u00a0 Lupe was amazing as always.\u00a0 It’s always hard to tell if she is even tired.\u00a0 She just keeps going.\u00a0 The light faded.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP were alone in a vast sea of boulders.\u00a0 The\u00a0big cairns with sharpened posts sticking out of them showed the way.\u00a0 They were a huge help – SPHP never lost the trail along the ridge for more than a minute.<\/p>\n

Gradually, first the cairns, and then\u00a0the sea of boulders faded from view.\u00a0 They were replaced by a sea of stars above.\u00a0 The flashlight came out.\u00a0 It was a\u00a0beautiful evening.\u00a0 Far away to the W were the lights of Saratoga and Encampment.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP continued on for what seemed like a very long time.\u00a0 Finally the trail turned and started heading down to the E.\u00a0 This stretch seemed terrible.\u00a0 It was steep and full of loose rocks.\u00a0 There weren’t any real switchbacks, just a steep gash on the mountain.\u00a0 Past a cairn, the dirt suddenly became smooth.<\/p>\n

Lupe and SPHP hadn’t gone too far on the smooth ground beyond the cairn when SPHP became worried.\u00a0 Suddenly, it really wasn’t clear where the trail went.\u00a0 In the weak light of the tiny flashlight, the ground looked all bare and smooth like the entire area had been trampled until all the vegetation had died.\u00a0 The scary part though, was that it was getting steeper.<\/p>\n

SPHP stopped going forward.\u00a0 It looked like maybe the trail went to the left towards the N, but a short investigation in that direction was not encouraging.\u00a0 Beyond some bushes, the bare ground got steeper.\u00a0 Shining the flashlight to the E showed nothing – just a black void.\u00a0 A check back to the S revealed a thick tangle of trees, but no sign of a trail.<\/p>\n

SPHP thought about the long line of cliffs that extended clear down past Lake Marie from Medicine Bow Peak.\u00a0 If Lupe wasn’t far enough S yet, to continue E meant inevitably heading over a cliff.\u00a0 SPHP decided to\u00a0go back up to the last cairn.\u00a0 If the trail couldn’t be found, Lupe would have to spend the night on the mountain!\u00a0 Even though it was certain Lupe wasn’t very far away from the G6,\u00a0only following\u00a0the trail\u00a0would be safe in the darkness.<\/p>\n

Returning to the cairn, SPHP was relieved to see that the trail did veer sharply to the S.\u00a0 In the darkness, SPHP had just missed the turn earlier.\u00a0 Lupe headed on down the trail.\u00a0 It was still surprisingly far back to the G6.\u00a0 The trail went down and down through an area of long switchbacks.\u00a0 When Lupe reached the G6, it was 11:30 PM and 44\u00b0F.\u00a0 Lupe was too tired to even eat.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP both just passed out.\u00a0 There was no repeat performance of Lupe’s late night antics near Laramie Peak the prior evening!\"Lupe<\/a><\/p>\n

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