Mount Logan Kings Trench
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 20.56 mi
- Elevation gain
- 11,663 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Experts only
- Elevation loss
- 1,657 ft
- Max elevation
- 19,542 ft
- TrailRank
- 58
- Min elevation
- 9,094 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 14 days 3 hours 39 minutes
- Coordinates
- 5099
- Uploaded
- July 17, 2016
- Recorded
- May 2016
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Itinerary description
We took the Kings Trench route, which is the normal route. We flew in with Icefield Discovery. www.icefielddiscovery.com. Fly in to fly out 8 to 27 May 2016. We were a team of 6, (unguided, a club group) and 4 got to the summit. The others reached Prospector Col. We had heavy snow cover so not many problems with crevasses or the icefield about Kings Col. We were largely lucky with weather and were getting weather updates via two Delorme Inreaches. We took small sleds and double-loaded all the way up to camp 4. (Some teams skipped our camp 4, but it seemed to help our acclimatisation). On the summit day, we took the long way round, rather than go over the West Peak. Seems the better choice if you are on skis.
Waypoints
Campsite
17,229 ft
Camp 4
Some teams skipped this one (or put camp 3 higher than we did) but it is very useful for acclimatisation and make your move onto the summit plateau much easier.
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Camp 5
We placed this camp below the West peak. You could continue for another 3 kilometres and camp there. That makes the summit day shorter and means you don't have to climb back uphill at the end of the summit day. But it also means you have to drag your camp gear a lot further, and you have it drag it back uphill to the Prospector Col a lot further! We did an 11 hr summit day and hated the final climb back to our camp 5, but when we were moving out the next day, we were very glad to not have the extra distance to climb.
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Espectacular.esto si que es una aventura. https://www.wikiloc.com/outdoor-trails/mount-logan-kings-trench-14024738#wp-14024743/photo-8691557
i want this trip :) too, its soooooooooooo coooool
Wonderful!!!!!!!