Dromedary Peak

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Mel Hall and I set out to tackle this peak on a remarkably pleasant September morning. We left the Mill B South trailhead in Little Cottonwood Canyon just after 7:00am to head up the Broads Fork Canyon. We made great time through the pretty, wooded, two mile section of maintained trail up to the beaver pond getting there in an hour and a half. The next one mile section of the trail is unmaintained and has lots of obstacles climbing the drainage above the beaver pond to the rock pile in about an hour. The next section is an open talus slope on the east side of the bowl ringed by Broads Fork Twin Peaks, Sunrise/O'Sullivan and Dromedary Peak. We made the saddle on the north ridge of Dromedary in about an hour and a half covering just six tenth's of a mile. The final two tenth's of a mile scramble to the peak took another hour negotiating many tricky rock climbing sections I would rate as class 4. Apparently there is an easier route to the top if you traverse around to the east ridge at some point after the saddle but I didn't learn about that until after the hike.

The descent was long and slow taking four and a half hours to retrace just 4.2 miles with the peak scramble retreat taking and hour and 20 minutes to get back to the saddle.

The trail profile graphic below correctly sums up the hike as: steep, steeper and steepest. About 4900 vertical feet over 4.2 miles, 8.4 miles round trip.