The Devils Prongs from Monashka Bay to Anton Larsen

[brooks]

Took the nice weather and went from Monashka via Airplane ridge to Anton Larsen Bay
The stream crossing to head up airplane ridge


Looking back on the trail up.... not much of a trail. It was very buggy and the brush was pretty bad. In retrospect, I think I would have taken a different route to Easter Sunday Mt.


The view from airplane ridge


Skirting the side of Easter Sunday to continue into the prongs. This is the only sketchy part of the trip. The grass slope is 40 degrees which isnt bad in dry weather but with any frost or moisture it would be a super slide.


Looking back at Monashka Ridge


Continued along the prongs and took this picture looking back


Found 2 bears that I had walked past. They were in the bowl to the right of Easter Sunday in the previous picture


First view of Anton Larsen bay and what i believe is Nipple Peak


Plenty of goats


No shortage of dirty looks from these guys


Dropping down off the ridge and heading to the road


Nice open bowls for walking


The crossing at the green grotto


It was a pretty amazing day on the ridge. Total trip was 11.5 miles and took about 7 hours. Many thanks to Philip for the pickup .

[brooks]

9/6/14
Philip, Lindsey and I decided with the nice weather to go cruise from Anton Larsen to Monashka Bay via the Devils Prongs. It was a glorious day with tons of sunshine.
Heading through the forest


Quite a landscape


On top of one of the prongs


The prongs were covered with blueberries


The goats make paths on steep stuff. You can opt to go directly over most peaks which is a bit milder than the goat paths in a couple spots.




We saw goats


All those white specks are goats

[Philip]

Yes! Stunning hike through some stunning terrain. It had been many years since the last time I had traversed that section of the Prongs. It was worth another peek.

Climbing into the alpine:





Yes, the goat traverses offered great views (down).





Now if we could only get them to cut ski trails...