Near Spear Lake Trail
Exit Pass from Spear Lake. In my case, I had come from Sawtooth Lakes and followed the drainage coming into the Spear Lake all the way to the alpine meadows below the pass. A bit of a 'whack' for sure, but doable and not that long.

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Spear Lake Trail

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Alpine trail that arrives at Spear Lake
4.8
mi
Distance
1,805
ft
Gain
moderate
Difficulty
Lake

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Flatter
Steeper
4.77mi
Distance
1,805ft
Elevation Gain
1,261ft
Elevation Loss
35%
Max Grade
10,074ft
High Point
9,183ft
Low Point
Path Type
Point to Point
Description
Spear Lake is quite scenic and a good base camp for climbing Black Tooth Mtn (class 4 or easy class 5) A nice mulit-day loop is to come in from Coffeen Park trailhead head east on the Solitude Loop Trail #038 connect with this trail and then Spear Lake scramble west over the pass and drop into Lake Elsa and pick up Trail 060 to trail #038 and back to trailhead.

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