This is one of the classic peak enchainments of Utah’s Wasatch Range.
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I want to have climbed all of the Wasatch’s 11,000-foot peaks by the end of the summer, and the Triple Traverse knocked out three of them.
Peaks climbed
- Broad Fork Twin Peaks – 11,330 ft (east summit) and 11,328 ft (west summit). I climbed both summits.
- Sunrise Peak (aka O’Sullivan Peak) – 11,274 ft
- Dromedary Peak – 11,107 ft
Times
- 9:04 – Left my car (~6,100′)
- 10:05 – Arrived at the pond
- 10:45 – Started hiking up the bowl toward the pass
- 12:15 – Top of Twin Peaks (east summit; 11,330′)
- 12:22 – Left the top
- 12:38 – Lef the west summit
- 12:47 – Back at the west summit
- 1:28 – Top of Sunrise Peak sub-summit
- 1:42 – Top of Sunrise Peak
- 1:50 – Left the top of Sunrise Peak
- 2:38 – Top of Dromedary Peak
- 2:48 – Left the top of Dromedary Peak
- 3:45 – Made it back to the snow in the bowl
- 4:38 – Back at the pond
- 5:40 – Back at the car
So it turned out to be
- 8 hrs 36 min car-to-car.
- 5,230′ vertical elevation gain from the parking lot to the summit of Twin Peaks, not including the up and down elevations for the other two peaks
- I’m not sure what the round trip mileage was, but I’m guessing less than 5.5 miles. Not much mileage, but a lot of elevation gain.
Note: In several of the photos below there is a dark dot near the upper-right corner. Some dirt/dust got into my camera. Sorry.
Rough map of the route I took
Trudging through some snow.
The three peaks. From left to right it’s Dromedary, Sunrise, and Twin.
From the Sunrise/Twin saddle, looking toward the east summit of Twin Peaks.
Panorama from the top, looking south and east to just about every 11er.
Looking toward the west summit of Twin Peaks.
Panorama from the west summit of Twin Peaks.
Looking over to the Great Salt Lake, which is about 7,130 below me and 25 miles away.
Looking over to Dromedary Peak (left) and Sunrise Peak (center of photo) from the top of Twin Peaks.
Looking over to Sunrise Peak from the Sunrise Peak sub-summit.
On top of Sunrise Peak, looking toward Twin Peaks. You can clearly see both summits of Twin Peaks.
Looking to Dromedary from the top of Sunrise.
Looking at Sunrise (left) and Twin Peaks (right) from near the top of Dromedary.
Me on top of Dromedary.
Looking east over to Mt. Superior from the top of Dromedary.
Looking down at Lake Blanche and its neighbor lakes.
Looking up at Dromedary Peak after coming down from it.
Smoke from a massive fire on a nearby mountain hovering over Dromedary and Sunrise Peaks. I thought the mountain was on fire.
More smoke from the fire.
The pond at the bottom of the high valley.
The three peaks, smoke, and the pond.