
Looking back at the Silver Creek Trailhead.

Proceeding along the trail.

View back toward Handies Peak.

Sundog visible top right.

Continuing along the Silver Creek Trail.

Another shot back.

Along Silver Creek, the trail was in great shape.

Redcloud Peak up there. The trail wraps around to the far left in this photo before proceeding to the summit.

View back as I enter the tundra.

Through the tundra, working my way up to the saddle on Redcloud Peak's north side.

View back again.

The trail leads up that steep slope ahead to gain the ridge.

Approaching the ridgeline.

View back as I work up the tundra.

Redcloud Peak comes into view as I near the ridgeline.

On the ridgeline, now heading up to Redcloud Peak.

View back toward the saddle. I came up on the tundra on the left in this photo.

Steep and loose, but nothing past Class 2.

Redcloud Peak ahead. The trail is easy to follow, but a bit steep at times.

Switchbacks up the talus/scree on a relatively good trail.

A small hump before the final push to Redcloud Peak.

Redcloud Peak ahead.

View back the way I came. The saddle I came up from is visible on the far right.

Redcloud Peak summit, view toward Sunshine Peak (left) and Sundog (right).

Close-up at the ridgeline to Sunshine Peak.

Close-up down toward the trailhead (center) and Silver Creek.

Looking back toward Redcloud Peak as I continue along the ridge to Sunshine Peak.

Sunshine Peak ahead.

Progress along the ridge on my way to Sunshine Peak. You can see the horrible descent gully I'll be using later on the right in this photo.

Ascending to Sunshine Peak.

Sunshine Peak top left.

Close-up toward Sundog (left of center) and the South Fork of Silver Creek, the descent route. You can see the horrible gully descent on the far left in this photo.

View back toward the route from Redcloud Peak.

Sunshine Peak final approach.

Looking back from the summit of Sunshine Peak. Redclouf Peak on the right, Sundog on the left.

Close-up toward Sundog (left of center) and Silver Creek (right of center).

Close-up toward Redcloud Peak from Sunshine Peak.

View west from Sunshine's summit.

I backtracked from the summit and took this social trail which leads down loose terrain.

View back up the social trail descent on Sunshine Peak's northwest face.

Short descent to the saddle with Sundog, visible ahead. You can see the Class 2/2+ terrain coming up.

Class 2 start for Sundog.

Class 2+ move on solid rock.

Just past the crux, a narrow Class 2 gully.

View back at my progress from Sunshine Peak.

Ridgeline humps leading to Sundog.

Approaching Sundog's summit.

View back along the ridgeline on the way to Sundog.

Sundog summit, view west. The trailhead is down on the right somewhere.

I backtracked from Sundog and located the social trail leading along the somewhat started route to Sunshine Peak. I passed a few people who had just come up and looked a big haggard. The notch on the right in this photo will be a tempting descent, but there's a small waterfall. Instead, I kept to the right of that notch.

And this was my choice for descending. It's loose.

Close-up of the dumb descent from the ridge.

View back up the stupid gully.

Another shot at the gully as I continue into the massive talus field.

Cairns mark a route through the talus field.

A shot back toward the descent gully (right of center).

Descending on talus. This is another short, but steep section.

I got to the social trail, view looking back toward the descent gully (right of center) and Sunshine Peak (top center).

Descending toward Silver Creek, below in those trees.

Looking back toward Sunshine Peak.

The trail is easy to follow and quite pleasant.

And then just before reaching the Silver Creek Trail I encountered the remains of a mudslide or something like it. The trail was still easy to follow, but there were some logs to jump over.

View back toward Sundog. I wish I had taken its north ridge down instead, visible up top.
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