Experience Field Trip - Bean Creek Basin

Field trip: Alpine Scrambling Course

Experience Field Trip - Bean Creek Basin

Day-long field trip to practice all scrambling skills.

  • Strenuous 3, Technical 2, Technical 3, Technical 4
  • Moderate
  • Mileage: 5.0 mi
  • Elevation Gain: 2,000 ft

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On this day-long field trip, you will practice and apply the skills taught at the earlier field trips as part of a real live scramble trip up to a non-technical alpine summit. There is always plenty of snow and rock to practice your steep snow, self-arrest, glissading, rock scrambling, and navigation skills.

Route/Place

Bean Creek Basin



  • Green Trails Alpine Lakes East (Stuart Range) No. 208SX

    Green Trails Mt Stuart No. 209

    USGS Teanaway Butte

    USGS Mount Stuart

    USGS Red Top Mtn

    USGS Enchantment Lakes
  • See full route/place details.
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Required Equipment

Required Equipment

  • Ten Essentials
  • Mountaineering boots
  • Crampons
  • Ice axe
  • Climbing Helmet
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