Continue north past Sunset Lake and cross a high plateau. Meek Pass, then descend into Alaska Basin, speckled with granite and a cluster of lakes. On day three, make the gentle, 200-foot climb over 9,726-foot Mt. A 500-foot-tall cliff band rises to the west and a 200-foot ledge drops into Death Canyon to the east. Cross a small saddle at mile 15.2, and continue north for less than two miles to Fox Creek Pass, a meadow with sweeping northeast views of the Tetons’s vaulted skyline (in July, lupine and columbine splash the scene with blue, purple, and yellow).įrom here, traverse north-northeast for another mile to one of the park’s most spectacular-and remote-backcountry camps on the three-mile-long, 900-foot-wide Death Canyon Shelf. (Watch for elk roaming through the next lonely, five-mile stretch). At the head of the valley, turn right on the Teton Crest Trail and climb out of the tiered basin, skirting turquoise Marion Lake on a grassy bench. The next day, descend farther into the depths of the canyon to North Fork Granite Creek. Back on the trail, descend a couple more miles before picking a site within the Mt. Hunt, one of the few peaks bordering this route that doesn’t require technical climbing. 2 mile later, tackle a class 2, off-trail climb (more than 1,000 feet in half a mile) to the rarely visited 10,783-foot Mt. Hunt’s northeast face appear to the west.Ĭrest the pass at mile 7.6, then. As the trail emerges from lodgepole and fir stands, the towering cliffs on Mt. Hunt Divide, which rises far from the bustling canyons to the north. Swing right on Open Canyon Trail 2.8 miles in, climbing more than 2,600 feet in 4.9 miles to a quiet pass at 9,710-foot Mt.
From the Death Canyon trailhead, hike west on the Valley Trail around the northwest shores of Phelps Lake, a popular watering hole for moose and black bears at dawn and dusk. Wrap around the rows of toothy, 12,000-foot peaks that form the centerpiece of the Teton Range on a 51.3-mile point-to-point hike with off-trail scrambles, good odds to see A-list wildlife, and near-constant views of cliff-flanked canyons.
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