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Hiking – Mount Falcon

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Hiking – Mount Falcon

BPX training hike with starting times at 4:30 and 6 PM at Mount Falcon East Trailhead. Meet and hike with other BPX members in a relaxed, non-competitive activity, designed to get you back in shape for backpacking's high season!

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Garrett Pettingell
Garrett Pettingell
Primary Leader
  • Moderate
  • Moderate
  • Mileage: 5.0 mi
  • Elevation Gain: 1,500 ft
I will be at the Mount Falcon Trailhead at 4:30 on Thursday. I will probably do the Turkey Trot trail up and Castle back. I will wait around for anyone showing up at 6 PM. I will be carrying 45 lbs. on my hike.
Bring water and register on the CMC website, please. Hope to see a few folks!
This is a great, almost spoon-fed way to train. If you take the Turkey Trot loop (the return trip on would be on Castle), you cover 3.2 miles and 800' vertical 
The full Castle trail (of which a leg could be Turkey Trot) covers between 6.3 - 8.7 miles with up to 2000" vertical gain.
For comparison, the popular Cathedral Trail in the White River Forest, near Aspen, is 6 miles (7 to the lake) and you climb 2000'. So, either option is a respectable after-work gambol (well, I gambol, OK?)
Bring water and register on the CMC website, please. Hope to see a few folks!
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Mount Falcon

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Required Equipment

Required Equipment

TK

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