Koppen Mountain

A beautiful day today with the lots of snow melt in the Teanaways, so we drove up to hike up Koppen Mountain. (7.2 miles with 2,300 ft of elevation gain). We didn't see another hikers on the trail today.

Trail stars along the DeRoux Trail and crosses the North Fork of the Teanaway River 0.2 miles in. Esmeralda Peaks in the background.

There were several downed trees on the trail, but they weren't too difficult to go over, under or around.

DeRoux Creek

We saw what looked like cougar tracks and, 

wolf tracks in the snow.

animal tracks heading up the switchbacks

Fresh snow with no prints as we continue up the switchbacks.

View from the pass to the southwest

View of Hawkins Mountain, Esmerelda Peaks and Mount Stuart along the ridge.

Pano to the north of the ridge including the above peaks, and towards the east: Teanaway Peak and Iron Peak

Mount Stuart as seen through a snag

Deeper snow going up the north slope of Koppen Mountain

Happy hiker on top of Koppen Mountain

Mt Daniel and other peaks in the distance to the northwest

pano to the south from Koppen Mountain

Heading back down from Koppen Mountain

We enjoyed the views to the north as we continued down from Koppen Mountain

Fungi along the trail today: