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The Grenadiers LbNA #8943

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jun 27, 2004
Location:
City:Silverton
County:San Juan
State:Colorado
Boxes:1
Planted by:y-nought
Found by: Not yet found!
Last found:N/A
Last edited:Jun 27, 2004
The Grenadiers are a row of high, steep, quartzite peaks in the heart of the Weminuche Wilderness Area of the San Juan Mountains. This quest is long, difficult and a little dangerous and is a bit much to go through for a stamp image. But if this is the sort of thing that feeds your spirit, I highly recommend it. A GUIDEBOOK AND SOME BACKPACKING AND MOUNTAIN CLIMBING SKILLS ARE NEEDED. My 11 and 15 year-old children placed this box with me spending three nights in the wilderness. There are some people who run up there and back in a day.

Between Big and Little Molas Lakes head east on the Colorado Trail, 10,600'. Green fields, out to a point, down 33 switchbacks, woods rose, cross a stream, cross a river, cross the tracks, 8,900', 2.5 hours.
You can also get to this point on the steam train from Durango and start fresh from here.

Up Elk creek, Alder trees, columbine, rock hewn path, steeps, aspen glade, glass pond, 10,000', 2.5 hours.

Leave Colorado Trail, skirt pond, watch the stinging nettle!, faint trail, jade pool crossing, fir forest, brutal steeps, over logs, willow thicket, waterfall, around cliff,parry's primrose, The Meadow, 11,400', 2.5 hours, mountain goats (pee in the rocks away from camp), marmots.

Start early, up to a bench, Arrow Peak, northeast rib, don't go left, thin air, crevice flowers, watch for storms, 13,803', 3.5 hours.

On a ridge sweeping just south of west, about 17 steps from the summit cairn, a boulder protrudes from the ridge on the southern side. I scrambled below this boulder and hastily stacked rocks around the letterbox before fleeing the approaching hailstorm. Thankfully, we were a few hundred feet down before it hit. Be careful. And make sure to have fun.