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Crosier Mountain Via Devils Gulch Road

We haven't been hiking in a couple of weeks. With Katie starting her new job and us only having Sundays together without either of us having to work, it's hard to get everything we want to do together done in just one day. But since we didn't go hiking the week prior, we knew we had to go this weekend!

Summiting Crosier Mountain is no easy task. First, you have to pick one of three different trailheads, all of which are over 7 miles in round trip length and over 2,000 feet of elevation gain. We thought we were picking the shortest and least steep of the three trailheads, but our hike ended up being 9 miles and 2,100 feet of elevation gain. The maps lied to us with the distance but we made it none the less and I'm pretty sure the other 2 trailheads would have been even longer and steeper.

We did the 9-mile round trip hike in just over 4 hours. The weather ended up being perfect. It was a little hot and sunny for the first couple of miles, then overcast for the rest of the hike with cooler low-70° temperatures and just a tiny bit of rain sprinkles. We stopped for 30 minutes at the summit to eat a late lunch and to rest a bit before heading down. The hike had everything from a large meadow with awesome views of the Mummy Range to dense woods, both alive and completely and eerily dead, and a spectacular summit panorama.

Trailhead Location
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8.47 mi 4.1 hrs 9,137 ft 2,162 ft
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Knaps Knob
Hairy
Deat Trees
Piper Meadows
Red Dome Blanketflower
Storms Rolling In
Resting
Rusty Hinge
Forrest of Fallen Trees
Pine Beetle
Fork in the Trail
Summit Direction
Summit Full Panorama
Survey Marker
Sumit Selfie
Roots
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