Cliff & Redfield Across Flowed Lands (3/1/14)
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 19.3 mi
- Elevation gain
- 4,380 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 4,380 ft
- Max elevation
- 4,643 ft
- TrailRank
- 33
- Min elevation
- 1,778 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 11 hours 48 minutes
- Coordinates
- 3863
- Uploaded
- March 3, 2014
- Recorded
- March 2014
near Tahawus, New York (United States)
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Itinerary description
Beautiful hike on a perfect day. Temp about -15 Fahrenheit in the parking lot when we started at 4:30 am. Daybreak by the time we got to "Flowed Lands". The trek across Flowed Lands is awesome during the winter with views of Mount Colden, Avalanche Cliffs, and the surrounding countryside. It was still very cold. I was wearing two light polyester layers, a thin shell top, soft shell pants. I had my Tubbs' Flex Alps on all day (perfect choice).
Flowed Lands (across the ice) only cuts off about 0.2 miles one way. However, some have reported that the summer route around Flowed Lands is nasty, buggy, muddy, mobile rocky, full of PUDs, and adds significant time. Alcohol was involved in both the sending and receiving of these reports.
Cliff has a very steep and icy section of about 500 vertical feet, but the trail is very narrow with plenty of handholds. A traditional mountaineering axe was found on this day to be horrible hindrance, as it caught on every low branch and blow-down. However we did discuss the use of an ice climbers axe such as: http://www.bentgate.com/shop/black-diamond-equipment/black-diamond-viper-ice-tool-3846 .
The walk up Redfield was a straight forward walk-up. Moderate grades with nice views (though windy) at the top. Back to the car by 4:00 pm. I did some back tracking, hence the distance could be better estimated as about 18 miles.
Flowed Lands (across the ice) only cuts off about 0.2 miles one way. However, some have reported that the summer route around Flowed Lands is nasty, buggy, muddy, mobile rocky, full of PUDs, and adds significant time. Alcohol was involved in both the sending and receiving of these reports.
Cliff has a very steep and icy section of about 500 vertical feet, but the trail is very narrow with plenty of handholds. A traditional mountaineering axe was found on this day to be horrible hindrance, as it caught on every low branch and blow-down. However we did discuss the use of an ice climbers axe such as: http://www.bentgate.com/shop/black-diamond-equipment/black-diamond-viper-ice-tool-3846 .
The walk up Redfield was a straight forward walk-up. Moderate grades with nice views (though windy) at the top. Back to the car by 4:00 pm. I did some back tracking, hence the distance could be better estimated as about 18 miles.
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some have mentioned using a Black Diamond whippet rather than an ice axe.