Dayhiking the SPS Peak List 1993 - 2010
Last Updated: 5/26/2021
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This effort was begun around 2001 when it seemed that with enough effort, any peak in California could be
dayhiked. Going after the SPS list in such a fashion seemed the best way to
prove out this theory. Matthew Holliman got sucked into this as well
just as he was starting to climb peaks on the list, and he went at it
diligently until August of 2009 when he finished the list on The Hermit.
I finished the list on Table Mtn Sept 23, 2010. JD Morris was the third person
to dayhike the list, finishing on University Peak on Aug 15, 2020.
Peak list with TR links
SPS Newsletter article
For those interested, this is my ordered list for the hardest SPS peaks based
on time:
- Scylla (with Hansen, Solomons) 23h40m (probably 18h via Echo Col)
- Picket Guard 22h15m (maybe 21h via Shepherd Pass)
- Observation Peak (with Shakspere) 22h (probably faster via Red Lake Trail)
- Table Mtn 21h15m (probably 20h solo)
- Finger Peak 21h (probably 20h via Blue Canyon)
- Tunemah Peak 20h30m
- Glacier Ridge 20h5m
- Kern Point 19h45m
- Thunder Mtn 19h30m (probably 19-20h via Shepherd Pass)
- Wheel Mtn 19h25m (probably 18h solo)
- Devils Crags 19h
- Mt. Reinstein 19h
- Whaleback 18h30m
- Volunteer Peak 18h15m
- Mt. McDuffie 18h10m
- Black Kaweah 18h
Red Kaweah 18h
Eagle Scout Peak 18h (probably 17h via Mineral King)
Milestone Mtn 18h
Midway Mtn 18h
Pettit Peak 18h