Koppen Mountain

We drove out to the De Roux Trailhead in the Teanaways to hike up to Kroppen Mountain a 7 mile roundtrip hike with 2,300 ft of gain. This is a mixed use trail. We only saw 2 hunters on horseback and no other people on this trail today.

We saw some lovely fall colors, especially along the forest floor.

After 0.2 miles the trail crosses the North Fork of the Teanaway River on this wooden bridge.

View of Esmerelda Peaks to the north  from the bridge.

The trail splits right after the bridge, we stayed straight on the De Roux Trail.

We continued on the De Roux Trail after the bridge crossing for 1.3 miles, here the trail only gains about 200 ft.

We took our time, soaking in the lovely fall colors as we went.

We saw this cat print on the trail.

Along the way the trail crosses De Roux Creek.

more fall colors

At the trail junction, we left the De Roux Trail and went left up the De Roux Spur Trail.

The spur trail is 1.2 miles of switchbacks going up to the saddle on Koppen Mountain.

View to the south from the saddle.

At the saddle to the east are a couple of campsites, the trail up Koppen Mountain goes through these campsites.

It is a mile up to the top of Koppen Mountain, the trail alternates between steep uphill and flat sections. there was some fall color here as well.

As we gained elevation, we started to see Mount Stuart beneath the clouds to the Northeast.

We also had a good view of Hawkins Mountain to the northeast.

There is a gorgeous view of the mountains to the north about 0.3 mile below the top of Koppen Mountain. 

View of the top of Koppen Mountain

Pano looking south from the top of Koppen Mountain

View to the north from the top of Koppen Mountain

zoom of Hawkins Mountain

zoom of Mount Daniel

zoom of Mount Stuart 

It was windy on the top of Koppen Mountain, so we took our lunch break at this beautiful view spot on our way back down. Beautiful views on a mostly cloudy fall day.