The final stretch of the sawtooth ridge as you travel from the Mt Bierstadt to Mt Evans.
This looks super scary and intimidating. In reality this portion of the ridge I think is the easiest of it all. Just make sure to move slow and stay away from the edge of the narrow path… the good part, it is wide enough to be able to avoid looking down into that big demise drop into “center of the earth”.
Mt Bierstadt and Sawtooth ridge. I enjoyed this route to get to my 26th, Mt Evans. This was my second class 3, first was Longs Peak, and I found it to be more of a class 3 “work out” than Longs. Longs had more exposure in many places, but I felt it was a “safe” exposure and really didn’t have to do any serious route finding or rock climbing. For Sawtooth it was all about finding the right route and there were number of places where I had to do some rock climbing, but without much of an exposure. So it was a nice work out.
This pic makes it look not as intimidating as it looks from other view points, almost looks like a nice vertically even ridge…
Btw, there are at least maybe hundred people standing on the summit of Bierstadt, saw it with long zoom lens…
