Amazing and supportive friends allowed Leah and me to squeeze in a little early summer mountain adventure together during a 4th of July camping trip near Butte. With a properly early start, we covered several miles of dirt road on foot to complete the de facto shuttle, then climbed Red Mountain by the normal Northeast ridge route. It took a while to get to the first peak, but from there, we were treated to a technically simple but delightful traverse along the crest over Table Mountain and East peak.
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Over Red Mountain and heading to Table.
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We did a lot of walking like this.
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Wandering toward Table mountain.
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We descended Pigeon creek ridge back to the car, which included a little bit of adversity in the last half mile, but was generally remarkably straightforward. Having driven by this little range for years, it was rewarding to get a peak at most of it. I was pretty impressed at how wild the mountains are once past Red Mountain. I enjoyed the outing and would recommend it as a high quality medium length day in the mountains.
I'm looking into doing this over the weekend and wondering how involved the descent from Pigeon creek ridge is? What's involved in the last half mile of adversity? We are thinking of just running out to highway 2 from Pigeon creek campground and doing a bike drop to avoid driving the gnarly road.
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