Distance: 1.5 miles round trip on trail
Summit Elevation: 5415'
Elevation Gain: 580'
Elevation Gain (in Empire State Buildings): 0.4
Round trip time: 1 hour
Recommended water: 16 oz.
Parking/Fees: Free at turnount on ACH
Difficulty: Easy
Mount Sally (HPS #244) was my third HPS peak and fifth total of the day. Padding stats with these easy HPS peaks. I took the trail that starts on the north side where the ridge meets the road. The first 200' are steep, then the ridge mellows out. There was quite a bit of dead poodledog along the trail, but most of it easy to avoid. There was a recent register on top with many entries. Views were pretty good since it is in the center of the front range like Mount Vetter. Quick up and down, then into the traffic jam back to Orange County.
We tried to do it from the other side and it was impossible with all the Yucca plants, is it better from where you did it?
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DeleteThere were some yucca plants, but most were easy to get around. A few had been trimmed. I made a couple of careful steps to pass where two were close together.