{"id":1866,"date":"2012-05-29T13:33:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T19:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schnizer.com\/SOTAblog\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2013-05-14T14:31:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T20:31:38","slug":"la-sal-mountains-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schnizer.com\/SOTAblog\/sota-trip-report\/la-sal-mountains-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"La Sal Mountains: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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La Sal Mountain Range as seen from Arches N.P.<\/p><\/div>\n

I have always been fond of the La Sal Mountain range. They provided a nice backdrop to many of my photos taken on visits to the Moab and Lake Powell area. It never occurred to me to climb them though… until I ‘met’ Mike\/K\u00d8YO.<\/p>\n

Mike commented on my trip report<\/a> to Mount Werner, an area that he is very familiar with. We started to exchange e-mails about SOTA and summits in Utah where he now lives, and soon started to make plans for activating some of the summits in the La Sal Range for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

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La Sals as seen from Delicate Arch<\/p><\/div>\n

The La Sals can carry snow until August which can make an ascent of the rather steep slopes hard if not impossible. Luckily for us, it had been a very dry winter in Utah and most of the snow was already gone. With the weather forecast in our favor, we set a date and within 5 days I was on my ~550 mi (ca. 900 km) journey to Utah.<\/p>\n

The mountain range contains of two clusters of peaks and rises high over the surrounding Colorado Plateau<\/a>. It has several major peaks and six of them are currently SOTA peaks:<\/p>\n