Mt. Prindle Take 2 (Bagging the peak)

Joel and I headed to Mt. Prindle the weekend after our first attempt to see if we could reach the summit. We headed to the trail head on Friday night and camped at the trail head so that we could get an early start on Saturday morning. 

Here's a picture of our campsite on Saturday morning. 

 Joel at the beginning of the hike. With in the first couple miles of the hike there were a couple of stream crossings and one in particular where getting your feet wet was inevitable. 

 Joel hiking starting up the ridge that leads to the summit. We had a nice picnic on the this ridge.

This is a big picture of some of the tors that are on the ridge to the summit. These tors (see link) are formed by slowly cooling igneous rock under the earth's surface that is gradually exposed to the surface over thousands of years as the softer metamorphic and sedimentary rock erodes away. The granite that makes up the tors is more resistant to erosion than the surrounding rock and large spires of the rock protrude from hills and ridges formed by the largely concealed pluton, of which the tors are a part of.  These particular tors are famous because they offer a great adventure for rock climbers. 

Here are more tors on the ridge leading to the summit. It's hard to see their size, but they are huge and very cool. 

Nearing the top of the summit the ridge became more of talus slope. The peak in the background on the left is the actual summit. 

This is a view from the ridge.

 And another view from the ridge

Proof that we made it to the top

The classic picture that Joel and I like to take at the top of every mountain we reach

Joel framed in between two tors

The valley that we walked up. 

Joel finishing the hike through the valley. And look fairly sunny blue skies... success! Ohh yeah it started raining and thundering when we got back to the car...