ckrueger
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My hiking buddy Doug and his 14 yr son Gavin finally finished on Colden on 10/12/08. Our final quest started on Friday 10/10 with me catching up with them by doing Basin. Doug volunteered to make the trip with me and his son was coming up later to do Colden with us. It was a perfect day/weekend. I had put out the question about going over Saddleback on the way to Basin last week. After reading the responses we decided to give it a shot. It turned out to be pretty straight forward and a lot of fun. We left the Garden at 7 AM and were on Basin by 11 AM +/-. We went back via Shorey Cut.
On Sunday we headed out for Colden at 7:30 AM and went up via Lake Arnold. Other than a little wet and sloppy in places it was a great trip up and we arrived at 11:38 AM. We toasted a little champagne and enjoyed the fantastic day for a hour or so. The feeling of completing the 46 is hard to put into words. We headed down the backside to come back through Avalanche Pass. In all our previous hikes we had never been in this area. It was well worth the trip down that way!! The views were fantastic.
Thanks to everyone who post on the board. I don't post often, but read everyones reports and have used this info in my hikes.
On Sunday we headed out for Colden at 7:30 AM and went up via Lake Arnold. Other than a little wet and sloppy in places it was a great trip up and we arrived at 11:38 AM. We toasted a little champagne and enjoyed the fantastic day for a hour or so. The feeling of completing the 46 is hard to put into words. We headed down the backside to come back through Avalanche Pass. In all our previous hikes we had never been in this area. It was well worth the trip down that way!! The views were fantastic.
Thanks to everyone who post on the board. I don't post often, but read everyones reports and have used this info in my hikes.
I call Basin the "I Love NY" peak... great stuff.
